http://blogs.freebsdish.org/rpaulo YAFB! Yet Another FreeBSD Blog Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:06:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So, here's a quick howto on how to setup Time Machine on Mac OS X so that it backups to a networked machine running FreeBSD.  On the FreeBSD machine: Build & Install net/netatalk from ports. Edit /usr/local/etc/AppleVolumes.default Append: "/your_time_machine_path TimeMachine allow:your_user_name cnidscheme:cdb options:usedots" and replace your path and your username in the proper places. Optionally, ... http://blogs.freebsdish.org/rpaulo/2008/10/04/apple-time-machine-freebsd-in-14-steps/ Many people use a Version Control Systems to mirror their $HOMEs in several networked computers. This has clear advantages of doing incremental backups of your $HOME (TimeMachine, anyone? :-)) and keeping it in sync across several computers. In the past, I've used Mercurial to do this job, but some months ... http://blogs.freebsdish.org/rpaulo/2008/09/09/dvcs-for-home-mirroring/ Well, EFI is nothing new, but, currently, we only support EFI booting on FreeBSD/ia64. Before Apple started shipping MacBooks with EFI, there would be a small interest in adding EFI boot loader to anything but ia64. But now that there are thousands of Intel Macs, interest has risen. I've been asked ... http://blogs.freebsdish.org/rpaulo/2008/09/03/so-you-want-to-test-the-freebsdi386-efi-boot-loader/ Something I've wanted to do for sometime was to boot FreeBSD on my MacBook via EFI. EFI is a firmware standard for BIOS and OS writers to deal with. Basically, it replaces the good old MBR booting scheme and is capable of much more, namely, all the real mode restrictions ... http://blogs.freebsdish.org/rpaulo/2008/08/31/freebsd-ia32-efi-boot-loader/ So, I've been offline for some days now and I'll continue to be until the end of the month. Development of tcpad is going fine and I just committed a few days of work into Perforce. This new work includes parsing of the TCP options and further SEQ/ACK analysis. SEQ/ACK analysis ... http://blogs.freebsdish.org/rpaulo/2008/07/28/tcpad-status-report-3/ I've been hacking the NetBSD lii(4) driver so that it works under FreeBSD. This driver is most notably found on the Asus line of sub-notebooks, Eee PC. So far, so good. I did not finish the porting yet, but the mechanical changes are mostly done. The reason for this is that ... http://blogs.freebsdish.org/rpaulo/2008/06/20/lii4-driver-for-attansic-l2-ethernet-found-on-asus-eee-pc-700701/ So, I found some time to continue my SoC work. tcpad is now capable of handling the most important TCP FSM transitions, like CLOSE_WAIT, FIN_WAIT_1, SYN_SENT, etc. I also implemented a basic timer facility that cleans up old connections in TIME_WAIT state. This still doesn't honor the 2MSL required by ... http://blogs.freebsdish.org/rpaulo/2008/06/20/tcpad-status-report-2/ So, I've been busy studying for this month's exams. Hence, not much tcpad development time was spent. Nonetheless, I've did the initial pcap processing, that is, saving selected packets to a pcap dump file. And that works. :-) The next step is finish the TCP/IP processing. This includes FSM transitions and ... http://blogs.freebsdish.org/rpaulo/2008/06/06/tcpad-status-report/ I've been running Mac OS X on my MacBook for some time mostly because I needed a very stable platform and good power management for college. But now that college is over, I decided to install FreeBSD again. After a few hours of compiling/installing/configuring, I booted up Xorg. Of course, I ... http://blogs.freebsdish.org/rpaulo/2008/05/24/freebsd-on-the-macbook-project-last-words/ For those out there that might be interested, I have been working on/following these FreeBSD networking projects: TCP ECN TCP ABC TCP Congestion Control API TCP ABI cleanup You can find more information about them at the FreeBSD wiki: http://wiki.freebsd.org/TCPProjects8. It would be great if all of these could be included in FreeBSD 8.0! http://blogs.freebsdish.org/rpaulo/2008/05/14/tcp-projects/