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Stefano Marinelli

My home server is running on FreeBSD again, but this time on one of the old APUs I have lying around my desk. I wanted to test its performance after years of being decommissioned. Some things are a bit slow (Nextcloud, etc) and the USB ports, even though they're 3.0, generate a high wait time, but all in all, it's handling its workload well. Will it stay here? I don't think so (or at least not for long). I just need to decide whether to leave SmartOS on the Qotom (and the services in the FreeBSD VM) or to bring it back to native FreeBSD. It's a shame it doesn't support more than 16GB of RAM.

#FreeBSD#RunBSD
Peter N. M. Hansteen

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: events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/tal

register here: 2025.eurobsdcon.org/registrati

events.eurobsdcon.orgNetwork Management with the OpenBSD Packet Filter Toolset (T5) EuroBSDCon 2025The OpenBSD Packet Filter (PF) is at the core of the network management toolset available to professionals working with the OpenBSD and FreeBSD operating systems. Understanding the PF subsystem and the set of networking tools that interact with it is essential to building and maintaining a functional environment. The present session will both teach networking and security principles and provide opportunity for hands-on operation of the extensive network tools available on OpenBSD and FreeBSD in a lab environment. Basic to intermediate understanding of TCP/IP networking is expected and required for this session. Topics covered include The basics of and network design and taking it a bit further Building rulesets Keeping your configurations readable and maintainable Seeing what your traffic is really about with your friend tcpdump(8) Filtering, diversion, redirection, Network Address Translation Handling services that require proxying (ftp-proxy and others) Address tables and daemons that interact with your setup through them The whys and hows of network segmentation, DMZs and other separation techniques Tackling noisy attacks and other pattern recognition and learning tricks Annoying spammers with spamd Basics of and not-so basic traffic shaping Monitoring your traffic Resilience, High Availability with CARP and pfsync Troubleshooting: Discovering and correcting errors and faults (tcpdump is your friend) Your network and its interactions with the Internet at large Common mistakes in internetworking and peering Keeping the old IPv4 world in touch with the new of IPv6 The tutorial is lab centered and fast paced. Time allowing and to the extent necessary, we will cover recent developments in the networking tools and variations between the implementations in the OpenBSD and FreeBSD operating systems. Participants should bring a laptop for the hands on labs part and for note taking. The format of the session will be compact lectures interspersed with hands-on lab excercises based directly on the theory covered in the lecture parts. This session is an evolutionary successor to previous sessions. Slides for the most recent version of the PF tutorial session are up at https://nxdomain.no/~peter/pf_fullday.pdf, to be updated with the present version when the session opens.
#openbsd#freebsd#pf
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Didier Legrand

Pinging from my #FreeBSD desktop machine:
$ ping -o 2a02:c207:xxxx:xxxx::30
PING(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2a02:842b:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:2bca:78b1:c56a --> 2a02:c207:xxxx:xxxx::30
16 bytes from 2a02:c207:xxxx:xxxx::30, icmp_seq=0 hlim=243 time=14.001 ms

--- 2a02:c207:xxxx:xxxx::30 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 14.001/14.001/14.001/0.000 ms

It works for all IPv6 !

FreeBSD Foundation

Open-Source Summit Europe!

Today, FreeBSD Foundation’s Alice Sowerby and Moin Rahman joined the panel “From Backlog to Breakthrough: How FreeBSD and Bitergia Tackled 7,000+ Bugs with Data-Driven Dashboards” in Amsterdam.

The discussion highlighted how better metrics and dashboards can drive transparency, decision-making, and collaboration across open-source projects.

The summit runs through tomorrow, explore the full schedule and learn more : bit.ly/3NXx5Zp

#FreeBSD#OSSummit
Stefano Marinelli

Tonight I made a simple, yet destructive (or at least partly) mistake: when I told FreeBSD which disk to destroy, I accidentally gave it the system disk of my little home server. This happened because it had the same size as the external SSD I had just plugged in, and I got confused.

I lost some reproducible configurations (the server’s name was in fact tempfbsd01), but I took the chance to run an experiment. My home server runs FreeBSD in read-only mode (that's the part I destroyed). From there, I manually enable the external drives (encrypted with GELI) and, in turn, the ZFS pools. Then I start the various jails and the (single, Proxmox Backup Server) VM.

Since I also have another test box running SmartOS, I decided to experiment: I connected the disks to it, created a FreeBSD bhyve VM on SmartOS, and passed the entire disks through to the VM. I reconfigured the FreeBSD VM with the bare minimum and booted it all up. The jails with BastilleBSD started without any issues - obviously the Proxmox Backup Server VM itself is still missing, but I’ll deal with that later.

I’m tempted to leave everything like this for a while.

And yes, for anyone wondering: I had fun 🙂

#FreeBSD#RunBSD#illumos
jbz

💡GhostBSD Ships "Gershwin" Desktop Environment For A macOS Like Experience - Phoronix

｢ Most interesting with this new GhostBSD desktop operating system update is introducing the Gerhswin communityp review for this community desktop focused on a macOS-like user experience with GNUstep. Gershwin provides a Mac OS X inspired interface while having "seamless" integration with GhostBSD tools and more ｣

phoronix.com/news/GhostBSD-Ger

www.phoronix.comGhostBSD Ships "Gershwin" Desktop Environment For A macOS Like ExperienceGhostBSD 25.02-R14.3p2 was announced this evening as the newest incremental update to this FreeBSD 14 based operating system focused on providing a nice out-of-the-box desktop experience
#freebsd#ghostbsd#opensource
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