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Free IT Book: Dynamic Tracing

MelanieYarbrough — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:54:03 +0000

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SFTP setup for FreeBSD

Sharlene — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 09:42:38 +0000

Hi

Does anyone know how to setup SFTP on a FreeBSD operating system? I have the operating system installed FreeBSD-8.1-Release-i386. Do I need to install FTP than install SFTP over the top? I am new to FreeBSD and FTP so any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

IPFW MAC BASED FILTERING

Techartist — Fri, 30 May 2008 02:40:47 +0000

in accordance with my precvious question, i also want to allow my musers on mac based so i found some useful links and tricks from google but now the problem is this that is this possible that i could intrstuct my ipfw rule to read the data from a file. make it remember that i am doing all this in freebsd 6.2.

IPFW Bandwidth Management

Techartist — Fri, 30 May 2008 02:37:08 +0000

Hi!
i have recently configured my gateway in freebsd by using IPFW but the problem is this that i am facing bandwidth congesstion so i hooked myself with google and found that DUMMYNET can satisfy my desires, anyhow when i sue the dummynet than its not going according to my idea, and i faced a number of problem which are mentioned here

first that when i use dummynet than it forget to check my other rules

and

second that i want to rate limit my 1024-65535 ports on specific bandwidth

so plz help me by giving me the solution of this confusions.

AliZ