FreeBSD 9.2 on Jetway NF9H-525

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Nov 032013
 

I wanted a new system to run as my router, so I set out to find a small system with at least three gigabit NICs. I settled on a Jetway NF9H-525 (also referenced as a NF9HQL-525), which is a mini-ITX board geared for networking applications with four onboard gigabit NICs and a dual core atom 1.8Ghz processor.  I also purchased an LGX MC500 case, two gigabytes of RAM, and pulled a drive out of a recently retired laptop. Bottom line: everything worked great and I would recommend it.

The board has four onboard realtek gigabit NICs (RTL8111/8168B) which use the re driver. They’re not the beloved Intel em NICs, but they’ll do. Especially for the types of applications this board is likely to be used for – like my home networking. Same deal with the intel atom processor. The system can be a bit louder than I would have really liked, but the fan speed stepping does work so it’s only loud when it’s under a bit of load.

I’m not going to bother including any build notes, mostly because I didn’t encounter any gotchas or oddities during the installation or configuration of the system. I read reports online that the NICs require a recent version of FreeBSD, but I didn’t have any issues with 9.2-RELEASE.

IPv6 Part 7: Securing And Optimizing An IPv6 Home Network Using FreeBSD

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Aug 232011
 

Welcome to part seven of my multipart series on IPv6. In this post I’ll cover how to use packet filter (pf) on BSD to run a small network. The router is running FreeBSD 8.2, but this should apply equally well to either OpenBSD or FreeBSD with pf.
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IPv6 Part 2: FreeBSD Host Security With IPv6

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Aug 142011
 

Welcome to part two of my multipart series on IPv6. In this post I’ll cover how to use packet filter (pf) to configure a host firewall on BSD. The host used runs FreeBSD 8.2, but this should be largely applicable to any version of OpenBSD or FreeBSD with packet filter support.
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