Spent quite some hours with FreeBSD networking on my Home-Server, but now it all works!!! 🥳

- 6 Intel NICs (Some with tagged, some untagged networks)

- Bridges and virtual switches for Behyve VMs and Jails

- Trunk-Port to my Aruba AP with all VLANs for different SSIDs

- Full IPv6 support on all networks

- Firewall (via pf) and NAT for Legacy-IP

- PCI Passthrough of one NIC to a Behyve VM (with IOMMU/vt-d)

FreeBSD is just a network beast 🙂 freebsd

#freebsd #networking #bsd #ipv6

Spent quite some hours with FreeBSD networking on my Home-Server, but now it all works!!! 🥳

- 6 Intel NICs (Some with tagged, some untagged networks)

- Bridges and virtual switches for Behyve VMs and Jails

- Trunk-Port to my Aruba AP with all VLANs for different SSIDs

- Full IPv6 support on all networks

- Firewall (via pf) and NAT for Legacy-IP

- PCI Passthrough of one NIC to a Behyve VM (with IOMMU/vt-d)

FreeBSD is just a network beast 🙂 freebsd

#freebsd #networking #bsd #ipv6

The next scheduled "Network Management with the OpenBSD Packet Filter Toolset" fullday session is at EuroBSDcon in Zagreb, 2025-09-25 10:30–17:30: https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/talk/FW39CX/

register here: https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/registration.html

#openbsd #freebsd #pf #packetfilter #networking #security #eurobsdcon

I watched a video about The invention of the network bridge where I learned about Radia Perlman, the network engineer behind STP, the Spanning Tree Protocol. From there, I read her Q&A on reddit and it's a wholesome read. Highly recommended.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvqv9QcTcfA

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/xl6cc4/i_am_radia_perlman_the_network_engineer_behind/

#networking #womeninstem

There is a new Café in town. The illumOS Café

The news is wonderful, the concept interesting, the setup simple.

Want to learn more? Surf to this link

Thank you 💕 @stefano

#Networking #programming#OpenSource#FediVerse #decentralized#illumOS

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/08/18/introducing-the-illumos-cafe/

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