April 2008 Archives

Network Administration with FreeBSD 7 is the book that I have been working on for past year. And now it is published by Packt and is available for purchase from various bookstores.

This book is something that I have been looking for since I started with FreeBSD back in 1997. I needed a practical book with working examples of how to optimize my FreeBSD installations for various types of applications. And I never found that book, until I recently decided to write one.

"Network Administration with FreeBSD 7" is unique in several ways:

• I tried to cover the exciting new features and improvements introduced in FreeBSD 7


• It is full of tips and tricks on how to optimize your installation from optimizing disk I/O, network, virtual memory, etc.


• It covers IPv4 and IPv6 configuration as well and bridging and routing in FreeBSD


• It has working examples of different IPSec, GRE, PPP and GIF scenarios


• I tried to cover Jail virtualization in working real world examples


• Keeping your system up to date and customizing system for specific applications is thoroughly covered

I tried to stop telling stories in the book and give more real world examples instead, so reading this book would not make you smile ;-)

An article named Tunneling with FreeBSD (taken from book) is also available on PACKT website.

I accidentally noticed today that my recent WebKit nightly 31667 passes ACID3 test flawlessly.

Kudos to WebKit team for their great browser!