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Determine default Gateway obtained via DHCP under FreeBSD

By 7u83 | November 1, 2019

So, lets have a FreBSD installation that got an IP address via DHCP using dhclient, and you want to know in a shell script the assigned default gateway for the specific interface. You can use the following little script which prints the IP address of the default gateway to stdout. Assuming you have the script… Read More »

Problems with FTP when Installing FreeBSD

By 7u83 | February 13, 2016

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If you have problems installing FreeBSD using FTP, because you are behind a NAT that doesn't handle FTP properly, simply chose HTTP. In the "Mirror Selection" dialog select the "Main Site", and then chose "Other": And now simply replace ftp with http: The installation should work now.