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My apologies. I should have noted that I had already read that chapter, and was looking for aspects that weren't discussed there. That would have saved you the trouble. (I know that I like it when original posters say what they've already read.)

In general, what are the important differences between pf, ipfw, and ipfilter? Why would one choose one of them over the others?

When I plug a Kindle into a USB port, the Kindle's display tells me: On (blush) Linux, that's exactly what I do. When I'm done accessing the Kindle from the computer, I eject /media/kindle, and that text on the Kindle disappears, to be replaced with what I usually see when the Kindle is not...

Correct. But the setting of BINDIR was not for the straight make command, but for the make install step. One thing has me curious, though, wblock@: why is make sometimes needed twice?

To expand on tobik's reply, for the benefit of any lurkers who might be newbies like me, this is how to download, modify, and install the source for a base application or library, if you're running FreeBSD 10.0 or 10.1. (But see tobik's useful observations in the next comment of this thread.)...

The fetch program isn't a port exactly (or I would be asking this question in the forum on ports, or actually I would already know the answer), so I hope this is the right place to ask: Is there a way to download (and then compile) the fetch program and its underlying library without...

Actually, I have a confession to make. I was incredibly lazy when posing the original question, because I could have discovered the answer myself. See, I'm not starting from scratch. Being part of the systemd diaspora, I'm porting an application to FreeBSD. I wasn't aware when I asked the...

In a C program, is it possible to turn on and off the Num Lock, Caps Lock, and Scroll Lock lights? I'm at a virtual console; X is not running on this system. It doesn't matter to me whether this actually has the same effect as pressing the Num Lock, Caps Lock, and Scroll Lock keys; I care only...

Except when it doesn't. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. The answer, obviously, is to adopt a defensive posture when coding a script which brings a dhcp connection up or down.

True, but since I sorted out my stupidity, I think it's cool that I can do everything I need to without adding hardware. I'll look at the firewall suggestions more closely later, but for now, I'm happy.

STUPIDITY ALERT The following is a stupidity alert, for the sake of any who stumble upon this thread. My initial observation was incorrect. It seems that when I do the ifconfig bge0 192.168.8.113 -alias dance, then dhclient notices this, removes the pid file from directory /var/run, and goes...

Exactly. And there are legacy hosts on the local network ("legacy" meaning "I don't have time to change and test the characteristics of each of them) which are too knowledgeable about hard-wired IP addresses in the 10.0.0.* range, and know nothing of DHCP. Lacking an elegant one-step solution...

That would help if I wanted to use DHCP from the get-go, starting just after boot. But I want actually just the opposite: no DHCP until I ask for it, DHCP when I do, no DHCP again when I ask it to go away, and back and forth like that. I can do that with the three steps outlined in the original...

I have a DSL modem which I use on a FreeBSD host to access the Internet; I use dhclient for this with no problem. But there's a wrinkle. The wrinkle is that I want to have, say, bge0 always have a purely local IP address, and sometimes have access to the Internet with an IP address provided by...

... and with forums like these as a backup resource, getting all the documentation shipshape is (in my opinion) a lower priority. I'm new to FreeBSD. At first, being part of the systemd diaspora, I felt pushed to FreeBSD. But almost every day for the last few weeks, I've found some delightful...

I finally figured that out, quite by accident. In what I thought was a completely unrelated move, I looked more closely at step 2 of Procedure 5.2, and decided to name a closer host in the svn checkout command. I followed the link to the discussion of mirrors, happened to glance further up in...

In downloading the ports collection with subversion as described in section 5.5: Using the Ports Collection of the FreeBSD Handbook, I seemed to have difficulties, or at least messages which would hint at difficulties. These messages (78 of them) are like this sample: Tree conflict on...

Two years old. Point well taken! The thing about old threads, though, is they continue to be visited by people like looking for insight. Updated info always helps.

So I'm playing with 10.1-RELEASE, and while it's running I plug in a USB printer. Two new devices appear: /dev/ulpt0 and /dev/unlpt0. My situation is simple; I'm not going to use lpr or CUPS or anything like that. I can cat data to either device, and it comes out just fine (other than the...

No link lasts forever. Here's the latest (as of this writing) link to the Handbook section on printing. Unfortunately, it seems not to contain the fancy HP escape sequence, unless I'm reading carelessly.