[by sven @ Sun Sep 25 11:35 CEST 2011]

Soon FreeBSD 9.0 will be released and FreeBSD 7 becomes legacy. Because I want to stay just one major release behind I upgraded from 7.4-STABLE to 8.2-STABLE yesterday.

To do so I had to made some modifications to the kernel configuration. Namely I had to remove the devices isa, npx, mem and io from the configuration because they are in the DEFAULT configuration now. Also the sio serial port driver has been removed and replaced by the uart device driver even so the atausb device driver is removed from the FreeBSD 8 kernel. In addition I had to add the COMPAT_FREEBSD7 option to the kernel configuration.

One major change for me was the unification of the IPv4 and IPv6 firewall scripts rc.firewall and rc.firewall6. I was using two custom firewall scripts that were derived from the scripts mentioned that I had to manually merge into one.

[by sven @ Sun Jun 19 12:50 CEST 2011]

Below are some speed test results from ipv6-test.com.

[by sven @ Sun Jun 19 11:42 CEST 2011]

Since the World IPv6 Day on 8 june 2011 I've been inspired to enable some more IPv6 services in addition to HTTP and SSH that are running since freegw was IPv6 enabled in 2002. The following services are now listening on IPv4 as well as IPv6:

HTTP(S) and SSH

And for private usage:

tunnel2586.ipv6.xs4all.nl
2001:888:1a1a::1

[by sven @ Thu Dec 30 23:01 CET 2010]

Today I came across The Wayback Machine. With this machine you can browse over web pages archived from 1996 up till now. So I looked up freegw.xs4all.nl and it took me a back to 13 february 2003 when this site was just about 6 months online.

[by sven @ Tue May 12 15:40 CEST 2009]

Yesterday I did a make world to stay up to date with FreeBSD 7. I thought it was a nice idea to delete obsolete libraries with the 'make delete-old-libs' command but that did broke almost all the installed ports. I had to re-compile all these ports because they were compiled against the obsolete libraries :-(