Archive for the 'NetBSD' Category

Phasing out Sendmail

Sunday, 29th of March 2009

Three weeks ago I finally managed to finish one of my longest lasting IT projects at home: replacing the Sendmail MTA on all my NetBSD systems with Postfix. There were plenty of reasons for this migration:

Sendmail’s configuration files are incomprehensible to most people including me. You can build them from somewhat understandable templates. But that [...]

EuroBSDCon 2009

Monday, 23rd of February 2009

Since 2001 the yearly European BSD Conference provides a great opportunity to present new ideas and meet developers of all BSD projects. This year’s European BSD conference takes place in Cambridge, UK.
As one of the local NetBSD developers I’m representing The NetBSD Project on the program committee. The program committee will review suggestions for talks [...]

Intel PRO/1000 PT

Monday, 8th of December 2008

After experiencing a lot of trouble with the onboard Broadcom BCM5721 Gigabit Ethernet interface of my new server I decided to get a network card that would be suitable to replace it. As Intel PRO/1000 MT PCI cards worked very well for me in the past I bought an Intel PRO/1000 PT PCI Express card.
The [...]