Adding Encrypted Disks to FreeBSD

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Since FreeBSD 10.0 the system installer has included an option to automatically encrypt the disks upon installation, which is great, before that it was quite a pain. This is going to focus on adding encrypted disks after installation. In this example I will be adding a pair of drives…

Null Routing IP Addresses in FreeBSD and OpenBSD

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There comes a time you need to block a certain IP address or subnet from accessing a server of yours. I usually run a table in PF or IPTables to throw IPs in so that they are properly blocked from all services, but if you need a quick solution to…

Getting Disk information on FreeBSD

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These commands will find any disk attached and recognized by your Kernel with the exception of some raid cards / HBAs. These were run on a FreeBSD-11 machine, some ancient versions of FreeBSD also had ata type tools, but they are no longer applicable. There are other ports that handle disks…