Table of Contents
Features
For detailed and important information, limitations and requirements about specific features make sure you read the Setup and Users Guide.
XigmaNAS Base System
- XigmaNAS 12.3.0.4 uses FreeBSD 12.3 - Check this hardware compatibility list
Minimum Specs:
- OS disk: 2GB, RAM: 512MB for “Embedded” installs.
- OS disk: 4GB, RAM: 512MB for “Full” installs.
All XigmaNAS OS versions:
- Arch: x64 amd64 64-bits versions only.
- Full Web Management Interface (WebGUI).
Arch: x86 (32-bit) & ARM versions are discontinued some time ago
Network Protocols
Extra services
- Bittorent client (Transmission)
- UPnP server (FUPPES)
- iTunes/DAAP server (Firefly)
- Webserver (lighttpd)
- Network bandwitdh measure (Iperf3)
Hard Drive / Volume management
- HAST (Highly Available Storage, hastd(8))
- Software RAID 0,1,5 and mix (1+0,1+1, etc…)
- Disk encryption (using cryptographic accelerator card if present)
- Filesystem: UFS, Ext2/3, FAT, NTFS
- Partition: MBR and GPT
- iSCSI initiator
Network
- CARP (Common Address Redundancy Protocol)
- 802.1q vlan tagging
- Wireless
- Link aggregation
- Bridge
- Wake On Lan
Monitoring
- S.M.A.R.T (smartmontools)
- Email alert
- SNMP
- Syslog
- UPS (NUT)
Software Used
XigmaNAS is based upon/includes various free software packages, listed below. The authors of XigmaNAS would like to thank the authors of these software packages for their efforts.
- ataidle Sets the idle timer on ATA (IDE) hard drives (http://bluestop.org/ataidle).
Copyright © 2004-2005 Bruce Cran (bruce@cran.org.uk). All Rights Reserved.
- Apple Bonjour Bonjour, known as zero-configuration networking, using multicast Domain Name System (mDNS) records (https://developer.apple.com/bonjour).
Copyright © Apple Public Source License. All Rights Reserved.
- cdialog Display simple dialog boxes from shell scripts (https://invisible-island.net/dialog).
Copyright © 2000-2006, 2007 Thomas E. Dickey. All Rights Reserved.
- e2fsprogs e2fsprogs (http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net).
Copyright © 2007 Theodore Ts'o. All Rights Reserved.
- ext4fuse EXT4 implementation for FUSE (https://github.com/gerard/ext4fuse).
Copyright © 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation. All Rights Reserved.
- FreeBSD The FreeBSD Project (https://www.freebsd.org).
Copyright © 1995-2022 The FreeBSD Project. All Rights Reserved.
- Freenas 7 Freenas 7 (https://github.com/freenas/freenas7).
Copyright © 2005-2011 by Olivier Cochard (olivier@freenas.org). All Rights Reserved.
- FUPPES Free UPnP Entertainment Service (http://fuppes.ulrich-voelkel.de).
Copyright © 2005 - 2011 Ulrich Völkel (mail@ulrich-voelkel.de). All Rights Reserved.
- Fuse Filesystem in Userspace (https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse).
Copyright © GNU General Public License. All Rights Reserved.
- host An utility to query DNS servers.
Copyright © Rewritten by Eric Wassenaar, Nikhef-H, (e07@nikhef.nl). All Rights Reserved.
- inadyn Simple Dynamic DNS client (https://github.com/troglobit/inadyn).
Inadyn Copyright © 2003-2010 up to v1.96.2 Narcis Ilisei. All Rights Reserved. Inadyn Copyright © 2010-2021 from Joachim Nilsson (troglobit@gmail.com). All Rights Reserved.
- iperf3 A tool to measure TCP and UDP bandwidth. (https://software.es.net/iperf).
Copyright © 2014-2019 ESnet. All Rights Reserved.
- ipmitool IPMItool provides a simple command-line interface to v1.5 & v2.0 IPMI-enabled devices. (https://sourceforge.net/projects/ipmitool).
Copyright © 2003 Sun Microsystems. All Rights Reserved.
- iSCSI initiator iSCSI initiator (ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/users/danny/freebsd).
Copyright © 2005-2011 Daniel Braniss (danny@cs.huji.ac.il). All Rights Reserved.
- istgt iSCSI target for FreeBSD (http://shell.peach.ne.jp/aoyama).
Copyright © 2008-2018 Daisuke Aoyama (aoyama@peach.ne.jp). All Rights Reserved.
- jQuery A fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library (https://jquery.com).
Copyright © 2021 jQuery Foundation. All Rights Reserved.
- LCDproc A client/server suite for LCD devices (http://lcdproc.org).
Copyright © 1998-2017 William Ferrell, Selene Scriven and many other contributors. All Rights Reserved.
- Lighttpd A lighty fast webserver (https://www.lighttpd.net).
Copyright © 2004 Jan Kneschke (jan@kneschke.de). All Rights Reserved.
- MariaDB Multithreaded SQL database. (https://mariadb.org).
Copyright © 2018 MariaDB Foundation. All Rights Reserved.
- MiniDLNA Media server software, with the aim of being fully compliant with DLNA/UPnP-AV clients. (https://sourceforge.net/projects/minidlna).
Copyright © 2008-2017 Justin Maggard. All Rights Reserved.
- m0n0wall m0n0wall (https://m0n0.ch/wall/index.php).
Copyright © 2002-2006 by Manuel Kasper. All Rights Reserved.
- msmtp A SMTP client with a sendmail compatible interface (http://marlam.de/msmtp/).
Copyright © 2008 Martin Lambers and others. All Rights Reserved.
- mt-daapd Multithread daapd Apple iTunes server (http://www.fireflymediaserver.org).
Copyright © 2003 Ron Pedde (ron@pedde.com). All Rights Reserved.
- Netatalk Netatalk is a freely-available Open Source AFP fileserver (http://netatalk.sourceforge.net).
Copyright © 1990,1996 Regents of The University of Michigan. All Rights Reserved.
- NTFS-3G NTFS-3G is a NTFS driver (https://www.tuxera.com/blog/ntfs-3g-community-edition/).
Copyright © 2008-2016 Tuxera Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- Open Virtual Machine Tools Open Virtual Machine Tools - Virtualization utilities and drivers (https://sourceforge.net/projects/open-vm-tools).
Copyright © 2007-2017 VMware Inc. All rights reserved.
- OpenSSH OpenSSH (https://www.openssh.com).
Copyright © 1999-2009 OpenBSD. All Rights Reserved.
- pfSense pfSense (https://www.pfsense.com).
Copyright © 2004, 2005, 2006 Scott Ullrich. All Rights Reserved.
- PHP A server-side scripting language (https://www.php.net).
Copyright © 1999-2022 The PHP Group. All Rights Reserved.
- phpMyAdmin Set of PHP-scripts to manage MySQL over the web (https://www.phpmyadmin.net).
Copyright © 2003-2022 phpMyAdmin contributors. All Rights Reserved.
- phpVirtualBox phpVirtualBox (https://github.com/phpvirtualbox/phpvirtualbox).
Copyright © 2011-2015 Ian Moore, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Copyright © 2017-2022 Now maintained by Smart Guide Pty Ltd (tudor@smartguide.com). All Rights Reserved.
- ProFTPD A highly configurable FTP server (http://www.proftpd.org).
Copyright © 1999, 2000-2020 The ProFTPD Project. All Rights Reserved.
- Python A programming language (https://www.python.org).
Copyright © 2001-2022 Python Software Foundation. All Rights Reserved.
- QuiXplorer A Web-based file-management browser (https://github.com/realtimeprojects/quixplorer).
Copyright © Felix C. Stegerman. All Rights Reserved.
- Rsync Utility that provides fast incremental file transfer. (https://rsync.samba.org/).
Copyright © 2007 Free Software Foundation. All Rights Reserved.
- Samba Suite providing secure, stable and fast file services for all clients using the SMB/CIFS protocol (https://www.samba.org/).
Copyright © 2007 Free Software Foundation. All Rights Reserved.
- sipcalc sipcalc (https://www.routemeister.net/projects/sipcalc).
Copyright © 2003 Simon Ekstrand. All Rights Reserved.
- smartmontools Utility programs (smartctl, smartd) to control/monitor storage systems (https://sourceforge.net/projects/smartmontools).
Copyright © 2002-2009 Bruce Allen, 2004-2022 Christian Franke. All Rights Reserved.
- Spinner.js A spinning activity indicator (https://github.com/fgnass/spin.js).
Copyright © 2011-2015 Felix Gnass. All Rights Reserved.
- sudo A tool to allow a sysadmin to give limited root privileges. (https://www.sudo.ws).
Copyright © 1994-1996, 1998-2022 Todd C. Miller. All Rights Reserved.
- Syncthing Syncthing replaces proprietary sync and cloud services with something open, trustworthy and decentralized. (https://syncthing.net).
Copyright © Syncthing Development Team. All Rights Reserved.
- syslogd Circular log support for FreeBSD syslogd.
Copyright © 2001 Jeff Wheelhouse (jdw@wheelhouse.org).
- tablesorter jQuery plugin for turning a standard HTML table into a sortable table (https://github.com/Mottie/tablesorter).
A Github fork of Rob Garrison (wowmotty@gmail.com). Copyright © 2007 Christian Bach (christian@tablesorter.com).
- TFTPD-HPA TFTPD-HPA (Trivial File Transfer Protocol Server) (http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/network/tftp).
Copyright © 1999, 2000-2009 The tftp-hpa series is maintained by H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com). All Rights Reserved.
- tmux A terminal multiplexer. (https://github.com/tmux/tmux).
Copyright © 2010 Nicholas Marriott. All Rights Reserved.
- Transmission A fast, easy, and free multi-platform BitTorrent client (https://transmissionbt.com).
Copyright © 2008-2018 Transmission Project. All Rights Reserved.
- VirtualBox Open Source Edition (OSE) & (Guest Additions) (https://www.virtualbox.org).
Copyright © 2010-2022, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
- VMXNET3 A NIC driver for FreeBSD (https://www.vmware.com).
Copyright © 2010 VMware, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- WSD Web Service Discovery (https://github.com/christgau/wsdd))
Copyright © 2017 Steffen Christgau.
- XMLStarlet Command Line XML Toolkit (http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net).
Copyright © 2002 Mikhail Grushinskiy. All Rights Reserved.
Some of the software used for XigmaNAS are under the GNU General Public License (GPLv2, GPLv3), GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), Apple Public Source License and PHP License.