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I know this is a stupid question, but I'll ask anyway. Must a DHCP server have a static IP address or is it possible for it to ask itself for an IP address?

Does anyone know a workaround to make MANWIDTH (see man) get along with line numbers in vim? I'd like to have MANWIDTH=tty (for the manpage to be displayed over the whole width of the screen), but I'd also like to have line numbers displayed when...

^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal_mode

The kld_list in rc.conf is: kld_list="i915kms hidraw hkbd fusefs" I was able to fix the problem by adding this line to loader.conf.local in the /boot directory: kern.vt.fb.default_mode="1280x720" Thank you for your assistance. (I spent...

Vim has a built-in manpage viewer plugin. So, the first thing to do is to make vim always load that plugin. In my .vimrc add the following: " Manpage plugin runtime ftplugin/man.vim The next thing we need to do is to tell our shell to use Vim...

I think the Xorg DDX driver changes the resolution (on a laptop when i915kms loads mid-boot my external display turns on); it's also tiny text on the resolution switch (I guess max res on TTY? it might default 96 DPI/not be HiDPI friendly without...

Looks like the kms module changes the resolution. Maybe try a different vt font to make things readable first using vidcontrol -f /usr/share/vt/fonts/<font file> Terminus is larger than the default...

Can you describe your hardware, please? Specifically the GPU type and which DRM driver you are using.

It was the most complex for me :p I had two parts for a daily updater at 4AM: FreeBSD's easier: I put the stuff in a .sh script I can run/edit flexibly, and one line in a cron.d: Windows I put stuff in a script like FreeBSD, but scheduling...

Upgrade to windows for workgroups (joke)

If you just want to guard against fatfingering something then the easiest is to install on ZFS and pick one of the automatic snapshot makers from ports. Learning rsync will pay off for you. It can be intimidating reading the manpage, though...

Wayland is still broken even on happy paths. $dayjob machine Rocky Linux 9, wayland, Plasma, one update months ago, broke the taskbar, the tray windows and the start menu are now shown at the middle of the taskbar. The launcher is not shown top...

Well, I actually have some experience with both Tagolog and Visayan, but I don't think that will be of much use. I took a Mandarin course about twenty five years ago, but I really don't remember much of it at all. I think that I learned how to...

Clearly not, the amount of gaslighting that I've had a subset of Linux users engaging in trying to convince me that systemd isn't impacting me personally, even though the development time that it takes to fix the integration that Linux software...

There's an application you can use to create shortcuts and macros, that will probably be able to do what you want. But I've been racking my brain all day and I simply cannot remember the name of it.

The zpool exists and everything is working as it should, I'm just wondering what generates this message.

Clearly not, the amount of gaslighting that I've had a subset of Linux users engaging in trying to convince me that systemd isn't impacting me personally, even though the development time that it takes to fix the integration that Linux software...

Old but Gold, inex 4100 My first laptop. still working... MS-DOS/MS Windows 3.11

Old but Gold, inex 4100 My first laptop. still working... MS-DOS/MS Windows 3.11

The culprit is /etc/exports / -mapall="root"

The PXE image is /boot/pxeboot It is invoked by this entry in pxelinux.cfg/default:- label freebsd menu label FreeBSD LiveFS pxe images/freebsd/boot/pxeboot My DHCP server wo rks normally and other utilities booted by my PXE server work...

I posted pictures of my CyberNet CyberMed 19" All-in-One above and I decided to try and make it my main firewall. Intel 6200U and 16GB RAM. It has dual SATA drives and Dual Ethernet. Many expansion slots. The screen came cracked but I like the...

And again, apart of discussing what might or not might be going on, how about you paste some of your configuration files, rc.conf, dhcpd.conf, and so on. Also write down exactly what is the PXE image you're booting over the network that "steals...

I think 192.168.1.1 is a default address for a lot of things. Almost all cable modems, consumer firewall devices, access points seem to default to this. Almost everything I've used has clear instructions regarding this. Assigning addresses via...

No. A "stolen identity" on the local network implies intentional ARP cache poisoning. Think of a man in the middle attack where a host impersonates the gateway. You have a misconfiguration. The PXE client needs to use the DHCP address handed over.

I typically have this in all my ~/.cshrc (I always use tcsh). if ( -x /usr/local/bin/vim ) then setenv EDITOR vim alias vi vim else setenv EDITOR vi endif You could do something similar with ~/.shrc or some other...

I thought sysrc only updated /etc/rc.conf. Thanks for pointing that out. I should have checked sysrc. My bad!

What's wrong with sysrc -f /boot/loader.conf ?

I am not aware of any specific configuration for a diskless client. I haven't configured anything myself specifically to enable booting disklessly I simply added this to my pxelinux.cfg/default:- label freebsd menu label FreeBSD LiveFS pxe...

I don't think that it was 'handed out', I think the diskless client was booting up using the configuration of the server, ie as a stolen identity, if you understand what I'm getting at.

Strangely sysctl reports only two devices. hw.dri.0 and hw.dri.1.

I ended up with two hosts on the same LAN with the same IP address, and the 'owner' was not reachable.

I have three, sometimes four hosts on my network. The problem occurred when I pxebooted one of my systems and it loaded pxeboot and proceeded to boot FreeBSD disklessly. In the process the IP address 192.168.1.1 was assigned. How that happend I...

Keepass, security/keepassxc https://keepass.info/

The only reason another host would get 192.168.1.1 is if the DHCP scope contains that address and isn't checking before issuing, it's been manually set on another device, or possibly a device had reset to defaults and that is its default address...

Re Rust, on their main "medias" such as the Reddit group, they are hell bent to call anyone almost stupid to use a OS package manager. (they also promote the "curl | sh" way of installing...) One of the primary arguments is - "Rust and crates...

I come from the Linux world and I think they are making a mistake with Appimage, Snap or Flatpack: yes, it is easier for a application to run on your computer if the developer dedicates themselves to creating an image of it, but you are losing...

Because we don't need it? For one, there are a million and one different Linux distributions (all fundamentally different in some way), and there's only one FreeBSD. On different Linux distributions critical dependencies can have vastly...

What other host? How many hosts do you have on the network? Is that network in the broadcast domain or do you have Layer 3 routing such as VPN connection? If it's a normal local network, every host on there should be in the ARP table. Btw I...

People don't care about other's breakage. Systemd is one of the easier inits I've worked with when it comes to turning the software I wrote into a service. And it is one of the hardest inits to debug. The issue is largely noone is debugging the...

My USB tethering is very stable and only needs attention when I need to reboot my server. DHCP is set up correctly. What I can't figure out is how the IP address of this server can be re-assigned to another host.

That article's meta discription (og:description, twitter:description) makes a nice attempt at viral "affirmation marketing" but its nonsense in two ways. 1) Wayland is struggling to take hold in the Linux world, let alone the wider *nix world 2)...

You need to provide all information in these threads. The network configuration, clients, etc. Who is doing DHCP, have you set up DHCP correctly? Are you sure your USB connection works. USB "tethering" is not stable for 24/7 operation. Don't make...

I see. All this seems to start to make sense. /var/db/dhclient.leases.ue0:- lease { interface "ue0"; fixed-address 10.32.83.248; next-server 10.32.83.24; option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0; option routers 10.32.83.24; option...

Did you ever see that error before? Guessing, but maybe that might affect HDCP on AMDGPU? If it's just that or nothing else important, it doesn't look mandatory.

DHCP has a lease time. At 50% of that timer a client will try to renew the lease. If you're seeing a renewal every 30 minutes the lease time was probably set to 60 minutes.

You are welcome! Nice! I have a similar configuration, only I use security/openvpn in the jail.