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Spent a lot of time today playing with OPNSense (err, fighting - a while back my whining about not getting along with networking was no joke).Eventually got what I wanted to work to actually work: OPNsense as an exposed node inside a Bell Giga Hub network and routing/NAT'ing to a dmz host hanging off said exposed node. But omfg, I suck at this stuff. It's painful - be glad you can't watch me work. Ha.Aaannyyyywwwaaaayyyyyy...If you haven't already upgraded to the latest OPNSense (26.7), you may be surprised by some of the quality of life GUI clean up and more impressively the sped up boot time. On my N150 based box it boots 'super fast' like a normal PC compared to the old fashioned, slow thing it was doing before. No hard data to share, just a seat of the pants anecdote.#OPNSense #RunBSD #networking #PF

@stefano @Tionisla You are probably right. We have a rally driver here in Poland who was Europe Champion when this title was worth more than World Champion. He always says: "winners are on the finish line". And I agree.But where is the thrill ?​:P

@bluetea take it easy and just step by step. I migrated a couple of years ago and also had some helping hands and met nice people over here (nicer and more relaxed than what I was used to in my last linux years *sigh*) so you are welcome. The handbook and manpages are great. If you look for help over here use hashtags, you'd either be pointed to a rtfm section of the handbook or like me when I was new get some speedrun/useful tips on zfs or how to handle ports by asking;-) And you'll encounter some folks directly or indirectly related to *BSD with very interesting links and projects here (like e.g. our bsd.cafe barrista).anyway, have fun.#runbsd #freebsd

@svaclav thanks!

See: https://exquisite.tube/w/dkV6kWiT9sp2y6xVwkH1iF

At work we are uing BSDs extensivly for almost all aspects, except as hardware crypto modules (HSMs). We are also using BSDs as workstations for the daily toil. This of course require a set of usage policies to formalise what is accepted and not. I'm glad we managed to get NetBSD into the official company policy with the following condition Must run on workstation/laptop hardware. Coffee brewers, toasters or other household appliances are explicitly forbidden from accessing production network. On a sader note, OpenBSD is no longer allowed access, when 7.7 goes out of official support in a few weeks time, due to the decision to remove yubikey-otp keyboard support in the kernel from 7.8. Oh well Cheers and RunBSD!

See: https://www.tumfatig.net/2026/redundant-dhcp-server-and-dns-resolver-using-openbsd-and-freebsd/

@hayzam thank you for increasing the fun to use FreeBSD