Remote Install FreeBSD with ZFS and Install LUSCA HEAD as Proxy Server

This is a tutorial to remote Install FreeBSD with ZFS for LUSCA HEAD proxy server. The ISO file that we using is from mfsBSD where we could find the complete ISO mfsBSD all version too.

- Set Mikrotik as DHCP server, define the port which use for server, set IP and just use subnetmask 30
- add rule on firewall NAT to forward the IP from internet to the server box
- Burn the ISO file, choose the correct one, and add the person near with server to ensure the server booting up from the CD
- check the log on Mikrotik box to ensure the server has already given the IP address by Mikrotik box

after all of above step success, now remote the server by using SSH or putty if you remote it from windows box. the default password is mfsroot while the user is root. Now, type the following command;

- Erase the HDD Data’s server, destroy all data.
# gpart destroy -F ad4

- mounting the cdrom
# mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0 /cdrom

- Install the FreeBSD with ZFS support
# zfsinstall -d /dev/ad4 -t /cdrom/8.2-RELEASE-i386.tar.xz -s 4G -V 15

if your server using AMD/Intel 64bit
# zfsinstall -d /dev/ad4 -t /cdrom/8.2-RELEASE-amd64.tar.xz -s 4G -V 15

Please wait until the process finish, than we need edit some files to ensure after reboot the server, server ready to the next step.
# chroot /mnt
# passwd root < === enter a new password

- enabling remote access through SSH
# ee /etc/ssh/sshd_config

find the following line

#PermissionRootLogin no

edit to become like below

PermissionRootLogin yes

Now, we configure the network for the server and ensure it match with existing network

# echo 'defaultrouter="192.168.2.1"' >> /etc/rc.conf
# echo ‘gateway_enable=”YES”‘ >> /etc/rc.conf
# echo ‘hostname=”proxy43″‘ >> /etc/rc.conf
# echo ‘ifconfig_fxp0=”inet 192.168.2.2 netmask 255.255.255.0″‘ >> /etc/rc.conf
# echo ‘sshd_enable=”YES”‘ >> /etc/rc.conf
# echo ‘nameserver 192.168.2.1′ >> /etc/resolv.conf

fxp0 is ethernet network card that detected by server. Please change if your network card has different name. just type “ifconfig”. Please change the hostname with your desire name. Than after finish, just reboot the server.

# reboot

Ensure the CD has been taken from CDROM and boot directly from HDD. If success, you will have login prompt. Now, we need to remote the server to install and configure before release it for production. Okay, let’s continue with some following command. But before we continue, just ensure you could successfully remote the server. for my case, I use putty.

- Install LUSCA HEAD
# cd /tmp
# pkg_add -rv perl
# rehash
# fetch http://simplyeko.com/lusca/LUSCA_HEAD-14809STABLE/LUSCA_HEAD.tar.bz2
# tar xzvf LUSCA_HEAD.tar.bz2

- Compile LUSCA
# make clean
# ./configure –prefix=/usr –exec-prefix=/usr –bindir=/usr/sbin –sbindir=/usr/sbin –libexecdir=/usr/libexec/squid –sysconfdir=/usr/local/etc/squid –localstatedir=/var/log/squid –datadir=/usr/share/squid –enable-async-io=24 –with-aufs-threads=24 –with-pthreads –enable-storeio=aufs,coss,null –disable-linux-netfilter –enable-kqueue –enable-arp-acl –disable-linux-tproxy –disable-epoll –enable-removal-policies=heap –with-aio –with-dl –enable-snmp –enable-delay-pools –enable-htcp –enable-cache-digests –disable-unlinkd –enable-large-cache-files –with-large-files –enable-err-languages=English –enable-default-err-language=English –with-maxfd=65536
# make && make install
# rehash

Create partition for cache, since the FreeBSD server has already support ZFS. No need to define the volume size of cache parttion.

# zfs create -o atime=off tank/root/cache1
# zfs create -o atime=off tank/root/cache2

Check again to ensure the /cache1 and /cache2 has already created by typing the following command

#df -h

proxy43# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
tank/root 288G 449M 288G 0% /
devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev
tank/cache1 288G 562M 288G 0% /cache1
tank/cache2 288G 556M 288G 0% /cache2
tank/root/tmp 288G 44M 288G 0% /tmp
tank/root/var 288G 12M 288G 0% /var

Now, we continue to configure LUSCA to run properly on the FreeBSD with ZFS.

# touch /var/log/squid/access.log
# touch /var/log/squid/cache.log
# chown -R proxy:proxy /var/log/squid/*
# chown -R proxy:proxy /cache*

Now, fetch following files to correct destination directory. These are the configuration file and need some adjustment to match with your current network.

- Fetch squid.conf and refresh.conf to /usr/local/etc/squid
# cd /usr/local/etc/squid
# fetch http://simplyeko.com/lusca/LUSCA_HEAD-14809STABLE/lusca_config/squid.conf
# fecth http://simplyeko.com/lusca/LUSCA_HEAD-14809STABLE/lusca_config/refresh.conf

- Fetch storeurl.pl to /usr/share/squid
# cd /usr/share/squid
# fetch http://simplyeko.com/lusca/LUSCA_HEAD-14809STABLE/lusca_config/storeurl.pl
UPDATE: # fetch http://simplyeko.com/lusca/LUSCA_HEAD-14809STABLE/lusca_config/storeurl.txt
than rename to storeurl.pl, chmod the file if needed
# chmod +x storeurl.pl

- Fetch squid.sh to /usr/local/etc/rc.d/
# cd /usr/local/etc/rc.d
# fetch http://simplyeko.com/lusca/LUSCA_HEAD-14809STABLE/lusca_config/squid.sh

One again, check squid.conf file and do necessary adjustment to match with your network requirement. Now, we continue to final touch before the squid LUSCA HEAD ready to release for production

# chmod +x /usr/share/squid/storeurl.pl
# chmod +x /usr/local/etc/rc.d/squid.sh
# squid -z
# squid -k parse
# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/squid.sh start
# sockstat -4

Done, now you could use the server as proxy server to serve your client. I have to write this as backup and remind me how to install. Next, I will share how to install,setup and configure squidstats as graph monitoring for LUSCA HEAD squid proxy server.

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