Linux handles SSH and SFTP Port Specification different
When working with SSH and SFTP, you may have noticed a curious difference in how ports are specified: SSH uses…
What’s the Difference in Linux between the Commands SU – vs. SU without the Dash
The difference between su – and su in Linux is primarily related to how they handle the user environment after…
Set up an NFS Server in Windows Server 2022
In this post I want to show how easily you can set up an NFS server in Windows Server 2022…
Enable X11 Forwarding with PuTTY and the Xming X Server for Windows
In this post I want to show how you can enable X11 forwarding by using PuTTY and the Xming X…
pfSense 2.6.0 Upgrade results on Hyper-VMs in very slow network speed
Last weekend I upgraded our pfSense 2.5.2-RELEASE Hyper-V VM appliances to the new pfSense version 2.6.0-RELEASE. One VM was configured…
Linux Hard Link vs. Soft Link (Symlink, Symbolic Link)
In order to understand the differences between a hard link and soft link in linux or in general Unix-like operating…
pfSense Boot Loop after Power Outage
A few weeks ago I installed pfSense 2.5.2 on a kettop Mi4005L Mini PC. This Mini PC uses an Aptio…
SSH Session Timeout – TCP Keepalive
In case your ssh connection is permanently disconnected in idle state, you can enable TCP-Keepalive either on the ssh server…
pfSense enable Logging for Firewall Rules to log internal Client IPs
By default for outbound internet traffic with NAT you won’t see the internal client ip addresses in the firewall logs…
Set up a Central Log Server with syslog-ng daemon on FreeBSD
In this post I want to show how you can set up a central log server in your network by…
