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Call to undefined function filter_var() on FreeBSD https://www.rubenerd.au/call-to-undefined-function-filter-var/

Posted by Luis Emanuel to r/BSD: I daily-drive Linux at work and FreeBSD on my personal ThinkPads (T480 & P52 currently). Both laptops and both operating systems, every day. I'm the kind of person who reads freebsd-update output and Phoronix benchmarks in the same hour. Recently saw the "is FreeBSD really that goated" thread and it brought back the timeline of my own journey. Started with a rough — call it version 0.9 — build that barely had X11 working, evolved through five iterations, landed on something I'd call "production-stable personal desktop" around version 2.0 on FreeBSD 15.0 with a heavily customized MATE, ZFS boot environments, BastilleBSD jails for microservices, WireGuard tunnels and PF. If I could send a packet back in time to my earlier self, here's what I'd put in the payload: … Question for this sub What's the one thing you wish someone had told you in your first year on FreeBSD? I suspect we'll generate a better FAQ in this thread than the wiki currently has. Yesterday from the same author: The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Two Systems on My Desk | The FreeBSD Forums

Today on undeadly log: Migrating mail servers from exim to OpenSMTPD (smtpd) is fun and useful Like (we suspect) quite a few of our readers, undeadly.org co-editor Peter Hansteen runs a mail service and settled on exim as the reasonable alternative to the classic sendmail way back when. However, that software has had its share of security issues over the years, and during the preparations for the OpenBSD 7.9 release, the ports maintainers decided that… https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260516064650

Thanks. Less formally: https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1t7mzw1/comment/okqt36w/?context=1 …

grahamperrin said: One or two bad eggs can spoil an omelette. … and now, the omelette is thoroughly spoilt.

Linked from the commentary, the gov.uk domain: Our evaluation of OpenAI's GPT-5.5 cyber capabilities | AISI Work

No problem with the vote @grahamperrin said: For what it's worth, I think: don't delete it from BSD Cafe Billboard. It's good to raise awareness of the reputation. I hadn't thought of it that way. Interesting!

See: https://minwm.btxx.org/ ping: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@bt/116573608067727480

=> 663: Proxhyve Switching from Proxmox to Sylve, FreeBSD Quarterly report, FreeBSD's laptop program, Migrating ZFS, Haiku and OpenSSL news, and more... https://www.bsdnow.tv/663

The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the fourth (and this time hopefully final) release candidate of the upcoming 11.0 release, please help testing! See the release announcement for details. https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_11_0_rc4_available https://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-11/NetBSD-11.0.html ping: https://framapiaf.org/@jaypatelani@bsd.network/116570729312543808

FreeBSD Foundation Laptop Update: https://freebsdfoundation.github.io/proj-laptop/monthly-updates/2026-04 or https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/proj-laptop/blob/main/monthly-updates/2026-04.md Cross-post: https://redd.it/1tc70zr

Other: pf for packet-filter; (yes, I seen the packetfilter tag)

Today, part 2: OpenBSD stories — OpenBSD/zaurus: pocket-sized BSD http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/zaurus2.html ping: https://framapiaf.org/@miodvallat@hostux.social/116565518174130734

That’s an interesting idea, though I’m not sure if it’s relevant. The question I’m asking myself is: why is it problematic to use the expire option, which is designed for this very purpose? because sysadmins forget to configure it, which causes the relevant tables to grow?! I think this is more relevant: The "feature request" wish I have is to be able to backup/restore tables preserving the counters and timestamp for each entry. Currently I do a "pfctl -T show" and save to file on server shutdown. Then I do a "pfctl -T add" from filename to reload table on boot. Obviously this resets all the timestamps to the current boot time. I know, don't reboot. seen on: - https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260513064948 This seems me a good idea: save with good informations when rebooting is needed, as instance a "new" rebuilded kernel

morning, alll. i have meet problem in freebsd15 bridge ... i have create a bridge as below content #for ipv4 only LAN 21 │ ifconfig_re0="up" 22 │ create_args_bridge5="addm re0 name re0lan" 28 │ cloned_interfaces="bridge5" 29 │ 30 │ #for home.. 31 │ ifconfig_re0lan="inet 10.8.1.200 netmask 255.255.255.0" defaultrouter="10.8.1.253" ok. #vm switch create -t manual -b re0lan public ... #vm switch list NAME TYPE IFACE ADDRESS PRIVATE MTU VLAN PORTS public manual re0lan n/a no n/a n/a n/a #vm create -t freebsd-zvol -s 10gb -m 2gb fb15 #vm start fb15 ok. when fb15 start or stop , the bridge ping defaultrouter 10.8.1.253 will lost packages. why ? please help me .thanks..... when i start or stop jail attach this bridge .. the problem will appear again... thanks. [image: 1778640610890-image_2026-05-13_01-59-37.png]

@grahamperrin said: I guess, you're quoting vermaden. "Y, sir, Y!" I changed on my first post!

… surprised to realize that there was no default terminal; you have to install one … On FreeBSD, x11/plasma6-plasma-desktop is comparable. The Plasma desktop environment installs without Konsole, without System Settings, and so on: [image: 1778618199160-ede9ff95-bbee-4c01-a8d1-878d58a8749d-image.jpeg]

An open invitation to Linux users across the board, offering a closer look at the penguin and its iceberg, a walk across the ecosystems that make it possible, an exploration beyond one’s biome. https://club.unix.rocks/commentary/under-linux/ ping: https://framapiaf.org/@fcambus@mastodon.sdf.org/116557961134185563

Every single software product is dealing with the question about what to do with “AI”-generated code, but the question is particularly difficult to answer for open source operating systems like Linux distributions and the various BSDs, which often consist of a wide variety of software packages from hundreds to thousands of different developers. On top of that, they also have to ask the “AI” question for every layer of their offering, from the base install, to the official repositories, to community-run ones… https://www.osnews.com/story/144935/openbsd-and-slopcode-raindrop-to-a-torrent/ ping: https://framapiaf.org/@osnews@mstdn.social/116558432820118949

“The server feels slow.” It is the most common ticket text in the world, and the least useful. Before you can fix anything you need to know whether the box is CPU bound, memory pressured, waiting on disk, saturating a NIC, or simply running a runaway process in one jail that is starving everyone else. On jail hosts, the second half of the problem is attribution: not just what is overloaded, but which jail is responsible… https://blog.hofstede.it/freebsd-resource-monitoring-accounting-and-troubleshooting/ ping: https://framapiaf.org/@Larvitz@burningboard.net/116560508989633469