Articles tagged with freebsd

1. FreeBSD TCP Performance Tuning

   Posted on April 07, 2024 in system_administration

   To enable RFC 1323 Window Scaling and increase the TCP window size to 1 MB on FreeBSD, add the following lines to /etc/sysctl.conf and reboot.

   net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=1  
   kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=16777216  
   net.inet.tcp.sendspace=1048576  
   net.inet.tcp.recvspace=1048576
   

   You can make these …

2. The Big List of Security Update Resources

   Posted on March 12, 2010 in System Administration

   If you have an interest in information security from a technical or managerial point of view, check out Principles of Information Security. It does an excellent job of presenting material for both audiences.

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