New blog post: "IPv6 at home — my simple solution" A very minimal, pragmatic solution so I can start working with IPv6 in my network at home. Experts might get a bit irritated and I hope you can channel your wisdom in friendly replies to this post so we can all learn and become better at IPv6, help a n00b!

Replies to this post will show up as comment under the blog post.

https://jan.wildeboer.net/2025/08/SimpleIPv6AtHome/

#SelfHost#IPv6#HomeNetwork

New blog post: "IPv6 at home — my simple solution" A very minimal, pragmatic solution so I can start working with IPv6 in my network at home. Experts might get a bit irritated and I hope you can channel your wisdom in friendly replies to this post so we can all learn and become better at IPv6, help a n00b!

Replies to this post will show up as comment under the blog post.

https://jan.wildeboer.net/2025/08/SimpleIPv6AtHome/

#SelfHost#IPv6#HomeNetwork

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 #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 #networking #bsd #ipv6

⚠️ News/Changes:

BoxyBSD will bring in a feature for more advanced users for our free boxes. Instead of only selecting a set of pre-defined BSD based images, you'll soon also be able to create your install simply from scratch with full remote access to your box. This lets you perform custom installations of #FreeBSD, #NetBSD, #OpenBSD, #DragonflyBSD, #MidnightBSD but also of some other niche systems like #illumos

Unfortunately, this might still take some time and fully relies on the spare time of @gyptazy.

#freeVPS#VPS#BSD#Box#BoxyBSD #gyptazy #opensource #education #community #foss #runbsd #hosting #freehosting #learning #ipv6

⚠️ News/Changes:

BoxyBSD will bring in a feature for more advanced users for our free boxes. Instead of only selecting a set of pre-defined BSD based images, you'll soon also be able to create your install simply from scratch with full remote access to your box. This lets you perform custom installations of #FreeBSD, #NetBSD, #OpenBSD, #DragonflyBSD, #MidnightBSD but also of some other niche systems like #illumos

Unfortunately, this might still take some time and fully relies on the spare time of @gyptazy.

#freeVPS#VPS#BSD#Box#BoxyBSD #gyptazy #opensource #education #community #foss #runbsd #hosting #freehosting #learning #ipv6

What's on the menu:
reverse DNS IPv6.
Because reasons. For the science of it.

#ipv6 #freebsd #dns

In general, I like netcup. The FediMeteo VPS rocks and they're quite reliable but....their IPv6 implementation is such a mess! Hetzner allows you to route, so each vnet jail can have its own IPv6 address. On netcup, I have never been able to achieve such a result.

#ipv6#Networking

Burning it in for 12 hours now. It consumes 17W at idle running #OpenBSD 7.7 without apmd and ramps to 35W during KARL. Firmware was updated to the latest supported for the model and VT-x extensions have been turned off, this is just a firewall.

Thermals are good with the case back together. In 20 degrees ambient, they are reporting:
hw.sensors.cpu0.temp0=39.00 degC
hw.sensors.acpitz0.temp0=27.80 degC (zone temperature)
hw.sensors.nvme0.temp0=40.00 degC, OK

I did clean the heat sink and CPU, then applied new thermal paste. Time to build some ansible playbooks for management and then apply them, ready for production. #firewall#IPv6

Burning it in for 12 hours now. It consumes 17W at idle running #OpenBSD 7.7 without apmd and ramps to 35W during KARL. Firmware was updated to the latest supported for the model and VT-x extensions have been turned off, this is just a firewall.

Thermals are good with the case back together. In 20 degrees ambient, they are reporting:
hw.sensors.cpu0.temp0=39.00 degC
hw.sensors.acpitz0.temp0=27.80 degC (zone temperature)
hw.sensors.nvme0.temp0=40.00 degC, OK

I did clean the heat sink and CPU, then applied new thermal paste. Time to build some ansible playbooks for management and then apply them, ready for production. #firewall#IPv6

In the same vein as https://ipv6compatibility.com/, I have used replit to create an aggregation service for global #IPv6 statistics. The code is slightly modified to run stand-alone on my own hosting systems and is available on my github. It's still pretty beta, but it works reasonably well.
https://stats.ipv6.army/

In the same vein as https://ipv6compatibility.com/, I have used replit to create an aggregation service for global #IPv6 statistics. The code is slightly modified to run stand-alone on my own hosting systems and is available on my github. It's still pretty beta, but it works reasonably well.
https://stats.ipv6.army/

Running a single user (or small) instance in the Fediverse? Relay instances acting as a spreading proxy can help you to find your content and also to make your posts visible to others - and you can easily join with #Mastodon, #snac and many other ones!

The https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com relay is mostly for tech related content and just got updates to the manpageblog design.

#mastodon #snac #relay #activitypub #fediverse #federated #bsd #devops #proxmox #ipv6 #opensource #community #debian #python

Running a single user (or small) instance in the Fediverse? Relay instances acting as a spreading proxy can help you to find your content and also to make your posts visible to others - and you can easily join with #Mastodon, #snac and many other ones!

The https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com relay is mostly for tech related content and just got updates to the manpageblog design.

#mastodon #snac #relay #activitypub #fediverse #federated #bsd #devops #proxmox #ipv6 #opensource #community #debian #python

Hello to our friends in Singapore 🇸🇬!

We’re happy to announce that we just opened up a new POP in Sin1, SG to come even closer to you! What does it mean?! IP-Space in Singapore including GEO objects & lower latencies in your area 🥳

Thanks to Route64 and @gyptazy !

#RUNBSD#FreeBSD#OpenBSD#NetBSD#BSD#BSDHosting#Hosting#VM#VPS#IPv6#BGP#Singapore#BoxyBSD

Hello to our friends in Singapore 🇸🇬!

We’re happy to announce that we just opened up a new POP in Sin1, SG to come even closer to you! What does it mean?! IP-Space in Singapore including GEO objects & lower latencies in your area 🥳

Thanks to Route64 and @gyptazy !

#RUNBSD#FreeBSD#OpenBSD#NetBSD#BSD#BSDHosting#Hosting#VM#VPS#IPv6#BGP#Singapore#BoxyBSD

#GitHub isn't free. We are all paying in so many ways. Microsoft is one of the world's trillion $$$ corporations, and they sure didn't get there by giving stuff away freely! 😃

@Codeberg is a Free alternative for FOSS projects using #Forgejo, based in the EU with a low-cost (optional) membership.

#SourceHut is another libre option with a different approach and low-cost membership.

Both are excellent, and both support #IPv6, unlike GitHub!

#GitHub isn't free. We are all paying in so many ways. Microsoft is one of the world's trillion $$$ corporations, and they sure didn't get there by giving stuff away freely! 😃

@Codeberg is a Free alternative for FOSS projects using #Forgejo, based in the EU with a low-cost (optional) membership.

#SourceHut is another libre option with a different approach and low-cost membership.

Both are excellent, and both support #IPv6, unlike GitHub!

Thanks to @s3phy again for helping me understand another area where IPv6 is broken in Linux desktop networking configuration tools: connecting to a SSH server to create a SOCKS proxy using the NetworkManager SSH plugin. That thing only checks if the gateway address is a valid IPv4 address

I reported the issue here: https://github.com/danfruehauf/NetworkManager-ssh/issues/130

#IPv6 #networking #sysadmin#réseau#réseautique#UX#SSH #proxy#VPN#GNOME#Linux#NetworkManager