Archive for the ‘Networking’ Category

Setting permissions on TrueNAS file shares whilst supporting NFS & SMB clients

In my environment I need to support NFS clients (NFS is faster – good for streaming) and also SMB clients (Mac & Windows). The following notes are the results of my experimentation in using different methods for restricting access to the shares. NFS shares depend upon user UIDs matching, and permissions only seem to work […]

Creating a guest WiFi network using a VLAN with a Cisco Aironet access point and OPNsense firewall

The aim of this howto is to explain the steps involved in setting up a second WiFi network in your home that does not have any access to all other devices within the home, such that your guests can have access to the internet but no access to your home network. I wrote it mainly […]

Setting a bandwidth limit for a BSD SSH connection

sshd has no features that limit the bandwidth used by a given ssh connection, so scp or sftp transfers can consume as much bandwidth as the underlying connection can support. If this connection is shared, this might be undesirable – one transfer will always be trying to saturate the pipe, forcing other communications to contend […]