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30Jul/110

FreeBSD: How To Enable ccache on FreeBSD 8.2

ccache is a software development tool that caches the output of C/C++ compilation so that the next time, the same compilation can be avoided and the results can be taken from the cache. This can greatly speed up recompiling time.

The following is a step by step guide to how to enable and use ccache on FreeBSD 8.2.

Install ccache by running the following command:

make install clean -C /usr/ports/devel/ccache
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29Jul/110

FreeBSD: How To Rename Network Interfaces

To rename a network interface under FreeBSD, invoke ifconfig command as root:

ifconfig bge1 name net1

Observe that the interface formerly known as bge1 is now net1. To keep the change after reboot, add the following lines to /etc/rc.conf:

ifconfig_bge1_name="net1"
ifconfig_net1="inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0"

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28Jul/110

How To Add a nullroute (blackhole filtering)

In computer networking, a null route or blackhole route is a network route that goes nowhere. Matching packets are dropped (ignored) rather than forwarded, acting as a kind of very limited firewall. The act of using null routes is often called blackhole filtering.

Null routing has an advantage over classical firewalls since it is available on every potential network router (including all modern operating systems), and adds virtually no performance impact. Due to the nature of high-bandwidth routers, null routing can often sustain higher throughput than conventional firewalls. For this reason, null routes are often used on high-performance core routers to mitigate large-scale denial-of-service attacks before the packets reach a bottleneck, thus avoiding collateral damage from DDoS attacks — although the target of the attack will be inaccessible to anyone.

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