Posts tagged 'home-lab'

Setting up SMB Multi-Channel between FreeNAS (or any BSD/Linux) and Windows for 20Gbps transfers

SMB Multi-Channel is a useful performance feature that distributes SMB traffic over multiple network connections, allowing it to scale across multiple network adapters, as well as multiple CPU cores through the use of receive-side scaling (RSS). It is supported and enabled in Windows 10 by default, and Samba has support for it as of version 4.4. At the time of writing, FreeNAS 11 is running smbd version 4.10.2, which of course means it supports multi-channel. Multi-channel works by making multiple TCP...

Setting a custom HTTPS certificate in Tomato, AdvancedTomato, or FreshTomato

I’m transitioning all of my local network services toward using an internal CA, but AdvancedTomato is a little trickier in that regard because it doesn’t have support for loading a custom cert or key in the web UI. Instead, you must connect over SSH and modify the certificate files manually, then write them to nvram. Simply upload cert.pem and key.pem to the root home directory, then save this shell script: cp ./cert.pem /etc/cert.pem cp ./key.pem /etc/key.pem sed -i "/END CERTIFICATE/q"...