my notes
Here’s a procedure I found on taesch.com to ping a Ubuntu machine by the hostname from a Windows PC:
hosts: files wins dnsSOURCE: http://taesch.com/my-digital-life/cant-ping-ubuntu-hostname-from-windows-xp-setup-winbind
Given that I spent time and money on my FeeNAS node, I want to maximize its usage, so when a friend told me that I can use PXE and NFS to boot a diskless computer from the network, I thought it was the perfect opportunity to try somehing new and activate some more services under FreeNAS!
Continue reading “Diskless HTPC using DD-WRT (PXE), Ubuntu/XBMC and FreeNAS (TFTP, NFS)”
vi /etc/init.d/1000Mbs
[bash]#!/bin/sh
ETHTOOL="/usr/sbin/ethtool"
DEV="eth0"
case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Setting eth0 speed 1000 full-duplex…";
$ETHTOOL -s $DEV speed 1000 duplex full autoneg on;
echo " done."
;;
stop)
;;
esac
exit 0[/bash]
update-rc.d 1000Mbs defaults
SOURCE: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-linux-add-ethtool-duplex-settings-permanent.html