Features
The next major releaser of FreeBSD, 7.0 will be released soon. There are
many nice improvements:
- TCP socket buffers auto-sizing
- SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol)
- Link aggregation / trunking
- New scheduler: ULE 2.0 / 3.0
- Most GIANT lock uses have been removed (increasing SMP/multi-thread efficiency)
- ZFS support
- Security event auditing
- New privilege separation capabilities
- SATA support
- pf firewall updated to 4.1
- Upgrade to gcc 4.2
Installation
The installation of 7.0rc2 in VirtualBox went smooth, except the network
part. The installer itself has not changed, so I won’t give details …
For the network, there is a bug (not sure whether it’s virtualbox or
freebsd7, the bug was reported
here) causing
the network not to work. The solution is to force the media type:
ifconfig pcn0 media 10baseT/UTP
For automatic configuration of the if at startup, edit /etc/rc.conf:
ifconfig_pcn0="inet 192.168.1.66 netmask 255.255.255.0 media 10baseT/UTP"
(to be continued)
