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Security

Replacing WEP with IPsec on OpenBSD, Windows XP 47

Posted by timothy from the nearly-navajo dept.
BSD Forums writes "WEP has been proven insecure and is thus inadequate for protecting a wireless network from eavesdropping or abuse. IPsec can be used as a replacement to WEP in the following scenarios. Joshua Stein has implemented IPsec on OpenBSD with manual keying between a router and a client as a replacement. Also, Thomas Walpuski describes in detail the configuration of an IPsec Host-to-Host connection between OpenBSD and Windows XP Professional with Authentication via X.509v3 Certificates."
BSD

New Bootloader for FreeBSD 49

Posted by michael from the hopefully-we'll-live-to-see-the-day-that-acpi-works dept.
Dan writes "FreeBSD Release Engineering team's Scott Long has written a bootloader front-end script that allows one to enable/disable acpi, boot single users, etc. His primary motivation was to allow users to easily disable ACPI, since so many problems are popping up these days with it. He is hoping to have this be on at least the i386 bootcd for FreeBSD 5.1 scheduled for release June 2nd, and is looking for feedback."
BSD

Network Stack Cloning / Virtualization Extensions 44

Posted by timothy from the your-virtual-empire dept.
HellRazr writes "From the FreeBSD hackers mailing list: 'at http://www.tel.fer.hr/zec/vimage/ you can find a set of patches against 4.8-RELEASE kernel that provide support for network stack cloning. The patched kernel allows multiple fully independent network stack instances to simultaneously coexist within a single OS kernel, providing a foundation for supporting diverse new applications.' We can sure have fun with this..."
BSD

amd64 cross-world completed on FreeBSD 31

Posted by CmdrTaco from the bsd-uber-alles dept.
BSD Forums writes "FreeBSD's Dag-Erling Smorgrav reports the successful cross-world build of the amd64 tree (A tinderbox is system designed to test builds and report failure. In the FreeBSD case, tinderboxes build world [the base system], GENERIC, and if applicable LINT kernels. Dag-Erling Smorgrav currently runs all the tinderboxes by cross-building from i386)."
GNOME

GNOME 2.3.2 Released, Ported On FreeBSD 19

Posted by timothy from the gnomes-and-devils-oh-my dept.
Dan writes "The GNOME Development Series Desktop 2.3.2 "Little Hero" has been released and ready for testing. It is available for immediate download on ftp.gnome.org and mirrors. This release is an UNSTABLE development series snapshot. It is intended for testing and hacking purposes ONLY. On FreeBSD, featuring gnopernicus, the FreeBSD GNOME team presents this development snapshot as GNOME 2.3. Testers should checkout the ports module per these instructions and download the new marcusmerge script to aid in the upgrade."
BSD

OpenBSD Hackathon Summary 28

Posted by michael from the while-you-were-out dept.
Dan writes "Daniel Hartmeier says that the OpenBSD hackathon is over and provides a summary of the pf related work that was done in Calgary this year. Accomplishments include packet tagging, TCP scrubbing and normalization extentions, SYN proxy, adaptive timeouts and minor bug fixes. Henning Brauer points out that the binary format of pf logs has changed to log additional items."
BSD

Building NetBSD Under Cygwin on Windows XP, PPC 33

Posted by timothy from the even-more-ubiquity dept.
Dan writes "John Gordon has completed a set of changes to the NetBSD build infrastructure that allows him to build at least two architectures (i386 and ibmnws platform, a PowerPC box) under Cygwin/Windows XP Home Edition and PowerPC. He has made a CVS patch for Cygwin, and provides instructions on the required configuration of Cygwin to avoid a problem with directory name clashes due to the case insensitive file system on Windows."
BSD

Coverage of the OpenBSD Hackathon 26

Posted by michael from the foreigners dept.
ccparrish writes "'In Calgary until May 20, they belong to an organization known as OpenBSD, a grassroots software movement with historical links to the University of California at Berkeley.'"
BSD

WarBSD 0.1 Released 20

Posted by michael from the stop-the-killing dept.
Dan writes "Stacy Olivas has put together a hack of PicoBSD .500 using the FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE-p7 source tree. After seeing WarLinux and how it used an embedded version of Linux to get the job done, he started wondering if PicoBSD could be used for the same thing. He calls it WarBSD. Its main intended use is for systems administrators that want to audit and evaluate thier wireless network installations."
Books

FreeBSD: The Complete Reference 153

Posted by timothy from the compleat-enchanter dept.
Just Some Guy writes "I recently received a promotional copy of Roderick W. Smith's "FreeBSD: The Complete Reference". I was pretty skeptical at first - it's my nature - but was pleasantly surprised at the range and depth of information presented in a very accessible format. While not ready to supplant Greg Lehey's "The Complete FreeBSD", it's certainly a worthwhile read for new and moderately-experienced users." Read on for Just Some Guy's full review.
BSD

New NetBSD/amd64 Snapshot 25

Posted by timothy from the runs-everywhere dept.
fvdl writes "As the number of AMD64 users grows, new snapshots of NetBSD/amd64 will be made available on a regular basis, until the next NetBSD release (2.0) is out. NetBSD/amd64 is almost two years old by now, but did not have a formal release yet, since hardware was not publicly available at the time of the last major NetBSD release. The latest snapshot is available at ftp.netbsd.org. It is a fully-featured NetBSD port, made available in the form of a bootable ISO image."

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