Misc helpful links
From FBSD_tips
A random collection of links
- Booting
- Dual booting with windows vista http://www.clearchain.com/wiki/FreeBSD_&_Windows_Vista
- The vista recovery disk : http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/windows-vista-recovery-disc-download/
- Drives
- Number 1 most helpful link : The Handbook : http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/
- The official status reports : http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/
- The FreeBSD support page : http://www.freebsd.org/support.html
- Security
- Official security information for FreeBSD : http://security.freebsd.org/
- Security wiki : http://www.bsdsec.com/Main/Hardening
- Hardening freebsd form littlewhitedog.com : http://littlewhitedog.com/content-72.html
- Where to buy cool FreeBSD stuff : http://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm/index?id=Kenw5sx4&mv_pc=120
- Oreilly' BSD pages : http://www.onlamp.com/bsd/
- General FreeBSD links
- query the PR database here
- FreeBSD 7.X stuff
- Filesystems
- Ext2 : Read/Writable by Freebsd (here), Windows (here) and Linux (of course!)
- ZFS http://www.unixconsult.org/zfs_vs_lvm.html
- Presentation on freebsd firewalls with a point by point chart comparing starting on page 8 here
- An update chart based on it Firewall feature comparison
- Helpful links for people not intimately familiar with FreeBSD : Travellers from other OSes
- Stuff that goes bump in the night
- X11
- Products related to FBSD
- Useful and unique ports
- Jail
- http://docs.freebsd.org/44doc/papers/jail/jail.html - Jails: Confining the omnipotent root.
- http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2006/03/09/jails-virtualization.html
- http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/security.html - Security FAQ
- http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html - Reflections on Trusting Trust, Ken Thompson
- Preview of BSD Hacks
- Networking
- Netgraph intro http://web.archive.org/web/20061013060805/http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200003/netgraph.html
- List of IPv6 addresses by country allocation (from chronos_uk in ##freebsd on freenode ... thnx!) http://www.chronos.org.uk/ipv6/
- MAC address lookup : http://coffer.com/mac_find/
- Mac prefixes as a text file : http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/oui.txt
- TCP/IP guide : http://www.tcpipguide.com/
- UIUC's socket and TCP whirlwind
- DNS
- http://www.dnsstuff.com/
- http://zeus.ecinox.com/index.php/the-continuing-denial-of-service-threat-posed-by-dns-recursion/
- A web page script that creates DNS records for you here (it doesn't seem to make PTR records)
- How to make a FreeBSD DVD
- FreeBSD hosting services
- M5 hosting : http://www.m5hosting.com/
- LDAP
- SHELLS
- Bash
