I use pf on FreeBSD 8.1-stable as my firewall of choice. Recently I’ve started using the University of Alberta list of trapped addresses. As of the time of writing this, the list contains about 56,000 IP addresses. When combined with my own list of 27,000 SPAMTRAP addresses, I quick ran into a problem […]

It was my riding buddy, John Boatman who told me he synced his iPhone and Google contacts. Just before I broke my arm in June, my iPhone died (actually, I lost the contents, it didn’t die) and I was without all my phone numbers when I really needed them. The phone numbers were […]

I’m not sure why I can’t get to the internet from my systems inside my LAN. The gateway can.
Interesting: On the client box, I can’t see any IPv6 traffic leaving the except icmp. The following demonstrates:

Setting up a

$ ifconfig
em0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=219b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,WOL_MAGIC>
[…]

For the record, I was doing a copy within a system recently:

# time zfs send storage/bacula@transfer | mbuffer | zfs receive storage/compressed/bacula-buffer
in @ 0.0 kB/s, out @ 0.0 kB/s, 4394 GB total, buffer 100% fullll
summary: 4394 GByte in 35 h 11 min 35.5 MB/s

real 2111m18.302s
user 11m44.831s
sys […]