I am trying to install FreeNAS from a USB on a server and am running into all sorts of problems. I have used UNetBootIn, Universal USB Installer, and ISO to USB to try to get the ISO on the stick, but they don't boot because there is a missing boot loader.  So I did a search and discovered that the only way to install from a Windows computer was to use Win32 Disk Imager.  However, that required an .img file and all I had was an ,ISO file.  So, I used PowerISO to make a .img file from the ,ISO file.  This resulted in:

No /boot/loader
FreeBSD/i386 boot
BTX halted

Can anyone provide any insights into how I am supposed to be doing this?

How to create a md (memory disk) file in freeBSD,

basically I want to keep / ( root ) in memory and hence I want to use memory disk ( md ). Also I want to ensure that it's like that boot over boot

Hi,

I created a few different zpool configs on ZFS using FreeNAS and I'm trying to figure out a way to reliably benchmark the performance.

I first tried it from a remote host connecting to an SMB share. In Windows I can't get any higher than 60 MBps. Both using a normal file copy (big file) and using various benchmarking tools. On linux I tried filling up a file using
to a smb mapped drive using a simple dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/cifs-share1/test1.img bs=1G count=5 There I get up to 106 MBps and then I guess I'm hitting the 1 Gbps Ethernet connection speed limit.

On to the host itself: So far I tried the default way using iozone which ships with FreeNAS. But the results seem to be high to be true so the question is how do I do it reliably and how to interpete the results?

The result I'm getting is:

    sudo iozone -i 0 -R -l 5 -u 5 -r 4k -s 10G | tee -a /tmp/iozone_results.txt
         

Excel chart generation enabled
        Record Size 4 kB
        File size set to 10485760 kB
        Command line used: iozone -i 0 -R -l 5 -u 5 -r 4k -s 10G
        Output is in kBytes/sec
        Time Resolution = 0.000001 seconds.
        Processor cache size set to 1024 kBytes.
        Processor cache line size set to 32 bytes.
        File stride size set to 17 * record size.
        Min process = 5
        Max process = 5
        Throughput test with 5 processes
        Each process writes a 10485760 kByte file in 4 kByte records

        Children see throughput 

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Hello ,

We need to install eth-tool on freebsd. As far as i searched on the net it is not possible but i am very suprised to see this on free bsd man's page

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ethtool&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=Red+Hat+Linux%2Fi386+9&format=html


I try to install from the given link below but i am facing with an issue .
Does any body know how to over come this issue ?

root@fw:~/Driver/rng-tools-5 # ./config
./config: Command not found.
root@fw:~/Driver/rng-tools-5 # ./configure 
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... ./install-sh -c -d
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... no
checking for nawk... nawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking how to run 

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Hello ,

I am using intel X550 fiber interface but it has unsupported SFP+ modules so i need to apply this command on freebsd   :
modprobe ixgbe allow_unsupported_sfp=1,1


Thank you

I want to activate ntuple support on my interface but i do not know how to do it on freebsd actually it is easy with eth-tool

ethtool -K p6p2 tso off
ethtool -K p6p1 tso off
ethtool -K p6p2 gso off
ethtool -K p6p1 gso off
ethtool -N p6p2 rx-flow-hash udp4 sdfn  
ethtool -N p6p1 rx-flow-hash udp4 sdfn 
ethtool -K p6p2 ntuple on
/sbin/ifconfig p6p2 txqueuelen 10000
ethtool -G p6p1 rx 2048 tx 2048
ethtool -G p6p2 rx 2048 tx 2048

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but i could not find how to do it

Interestingly enough I have no problem using let's encrypt on Windows platform and figured it was going to be a breeze on *nix... Running into a slew of issues.  For one I am trying to use certbot to facilitate this.  When I issue the correct commands and webroot I see it builds the .well-known folder but it does not build the acme-challenge folder.  If I try to manually create the acme-challenge folder it deletes it after the sudo certbot certonly --webroot -w /var/www/example -d example.com -d www.example.com command (with my domain info substituted of course) with the following error:

Detail: Invalid response from
   http://<mysite>/.well-known/acme-challenge/bM6ijKNrbr6Dcf3nzJdyhssFHrySeeLk-2VWQgAlWnQ:
   "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
   <html><head>
   <title>403 Forbidden</title>
   </head><body>
   <h1>Forbidden</h1>
   <p"
Super frustrated as everything in *nix is always easier, right?  Well not this time LOL.   Any suggestions would be appreciated!

-J

I heard iOS is tailored from FreeBSD so I'm hoping to be able to do something like
"ps -ef |grep email_client_process"
if it's not there, then restart it.

Reason is our MobileIron email+ client kept getting killed by iOS as iOS sees it
as a 3rd party/foreign process.

any chance of doing this on an MDM controlled device?

I have a mail server on a FreeBSD box. Can you tell me how to tell what kind of email server is running on this FreeBSD?

No matter what NTP server address i put in it says "server could not be reached". I tried setting it to force and rebooting it but that didnt do anything either. I'm not understanding why this wont work because i can clearly ping from FreeNAS to my other servers that i want to use as a reference.

I also tried doing it through shell but I don't know if I have the commands correct...

Hi everyone. I'm going crazy trying to join my FREENAS server to windows 2008 AD service. I've tried almost everything with no luck. I always get this message:

Unable to find domain controllers for innovateperu.local.

and the log shows:  

FreeNAS_ActiveDirectory_Base.get_SRV_records: no SRV records for _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.innovateperu.local found, fail!

I have attached some screenshots of my FREENAS configuration

PS.
My local domain is: innovateperu.local
ad_conf.png
cifs_conf.png
network_conf.png
config.png
krb5.png
resolv.png
smb4.png

I'm trying to configure my server firewall to only accept connections that are coming from an Xfinity user.  I don't have a static IP, but was wondering if Xfinity owned a block, or something like that.

I'm setting this up on a FreeBSD server.

I'm trying to figure out what the very top (dot) directory is, and why it shows that it was created today.