102: May Contain ZFS

This week on the show, we'll be talking with Peter Toth. He's got a jail management system called "iocage" that's been getting pretty popular recently. Have we finally found a replacement for ezjail? We'll see how it stacks up.

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FreeBSD on Olimex RT5350F-OLinuXino

If you haven't heard of the RT5350F-OLinuXino-EVB, you're not alone (actually, we probably couldn't even remember the name if we did know about it)
It's a small board with a MIPS CPU, two ethernet ports, wireless support and... 32MB of RAM
This blog series documents installing FreeBSD on the device, but it is quite a DIY setup at the moment
In part two of the series, he talks about the GPIO and how you can configure it
Part three is still in the works, so check the site later on for further progress and info ***

The modern OpenBSD home router

In a new series of blog posts, one guy takes you through the process of building an OpenBSD-based gateway for his home network
"It’s no secret that most consumer routers ship with software that’s flaky at best, and prohibitively insecure at worst"
Armed with a 600MHz Pentium III CPU, he shows the process of setting up basic NAT, firewalling and even getting hostap mode working for wireless
This guide also covers PPP and IPv6, in case you have those requirements
In a similar but unrelated series, another user does a similar thing - his post also includes details on reusing your consumer router as a wireless bridge
He also has a separate post for setting up an IPSEC VPN on the router ***

NetBSD at Open Source Conference 2015 Kansai

The Japanese NetBSD users group has teamed up with the Kansai BSD users group and Nagoya BSD users group to invade another conference
They had NetBSD running on all the usual (unusual?) devices, but some of the other BSDs also got a chance to shine at the event
Last time they mostly had ARM devices, but this time the centerpiece was an OMRON LUNA88k
They had at least one FreeBSD and OpenBSD device, and at least one NetBSD device even had Adobe Flash running on it
And what conference would be complete without an LED-powered towel ***

OpenSSH 7.0 released

The OpenSSH team has just finished up the 7.0 release, and the focus this time is deprecating legacy code
SSHv1 support is disabled, 1024 bit diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 KEX is disabled and the v00 cert format authentication is disabled
The syntax for permitting root logins has bee

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