Author Archives: Randy

Adding alias IP subnet to an interface or VLAN

In the PFsense docs it tells you to use the ‘alias’ option in the web interface… but this won’t work for routed (non-NAT) interfaces that require more than 1 subnet attached to them. To overcome this, I utilized this article: http://doc.pfsense.org/multiple-subnets-one-interface-pfsense.pdf In summary: Log into the webGUI, and click Diagnostics -> Backup/Restore. Click the “Download […]

Sample Debian/Ubuntu Interfaces File

/etc/network/interfaces # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface allow-hotplug eth0 auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 208.85.x.x netmask 255.255.255.x gateway 208.85.x.x auto eth0:1 iface eth0:1 inet static address 208.85.x.x netmask 255.255.255.x

Clean upgrade from SAM3 to SAM4 with playlist in-tact

SAM4 has a slightly different database format and filesystem layout than SAM3. You should not try an in-place upgrade, or bad things can happen. The best way to upgrade if you have a large or refined playlist, is to install SAM4 along side SAM3 and copy the playlist tables over. This way you can leave […]

Vanilla Kernel on CentOS

If compiling a Vanilla kernel for CentOS, you may encounter the following after rebooting: Setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory Setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory Setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory […] Kernel panic – not syncing: Attempted to kill init! To resolve the booting […]