Monthly Archives: January 2007

Welcome to BSD Support.

Posted on January 17, 2007 by jeff

I have just completed the transition of BSD Support from it’s existing format into WordPress. All legacy articles have been migrated and should be easy to retrieve. It is my hope that this change will help spur additional articles being … Continue reading →

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Backup Files and Partitions with dd and netcat

Posted on January 17, 2007 by jeff

This paper walks through various scenarios where dd and netcat can be used to backup files for administrative and forensic purposes. This paper is expected to grow over time and will be updated as time permits. The first example uses … Continue reading →

Posted in DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Networking, OpenBSD, Papers, System Administration | 1 Comment

Configuring racoon/ipsec-tools to use x509 Certificates

Posted on January 17, 2007 by jeff

This paper reviews the process to configure racoon/ipsec-tools to authenticate IPSec communications via x509 certificates. Our example does not cover howto configure a Certificate Authority (CA). This process will be examined in another paper. Our example also assumes the clients … Continue reading →

Posted in DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Networking, Papers, Security | 1 Comment