Archive for 'FreeBSD' Category
How to setup L2TP/IPSec VPN on FreeBSD
Tweet VIA: http://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=10Ve-adspb5jXDtC-LhwJAeWB0e52Tmbm5fva9ppCV5U L2TP/IPSec Configuration RAS VPN server tutorial (Version 20100711) Warning: 1) This tutorial contains scripts as well as modifications to your operating system, which may lead to degradation of performance, disruption of your network or even loss of data. Backup the data, and think twice before committing any change. 2) The steps described [...]
Freebsd Based GhostBSD 1.5 Beta released
Tweet GhostBSD it is a Gnome based FreeBSD distribution in a form of a live CD. In future GhostBSD is being worked on to be installable on a disk. There are no new user friendly distributions of FreeBSD based on gnome.The GhostBSD project’s goal is to improve Gnome desktop environment on a FreeBSD system. Now [...]
OpenVPN with FreeBSD, PF and Windows XP
Tweet This howto is a quick a dirty guide to building OpenVPN on a FreeBSD box (running pf as the firewall), and then connecting a Windows XP client to it. Server Install First install the port cd /usr/ports/security/openvpn make install Now that the port is installed you can start setting stuff up. First edit your [...]
Siege: use web benchmarking utility on freebsd
Tweet Siege is an http regression testing and benchmarking utility. It was designed to let web developers measure the performance of their code under duress, to see how it will stand up to load on the internet. It lets the user hit a web server with a configurable number of concurrent simulated users. Url: http://www.joedog.org/JoeDog/Siege [...]
Stopping SSH & FTP brute force attacks with IPFW
Tweet Brute force attacks are becoming more and more common in todays security landscape; if you receive security cron logs from your FreeBSD server you will know exactly what I mean. These attacks usually use automated software to try thousands of username and password combinations on SSH and FTP, continually aiming to find a weak [...]
