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During quarantine I decided to set up some networking equipment with FreeBSD whereas historically I’d have used Linux. Wow! What an improvement! Everything is s
by centimeter 6y ago
During quarantine I decided to set up some networking equipment with FreeBSD whereas historically I’d have used Linux. Wow! What an improvement! Everything is so much cleaner, easier, faster to set up. I don’t have to screw around as much to make it boot and install on headless hardware. I can boot off a ZFS root volume. Networking is simple and clear to configure. Documentation is great. I don’t think I’ll use Linux again in the future when setting up a server, if I can avoid it.
- efxhoy 6y agoWhat kind of networking equipment? I'm thinking of ditching pfsense and going bare freebsd or pfsense for my home router box and a few more anecdotes of similar projects would be nice to hear.
- tofaz 6y agoHappy FreeBSD user here. I personally use a Protectli FW1 with FreeBSD 12.1 and PF (Kernel recompiled with ALTQ support for QoS) and it works very well! I tried to move to OpenBSD to get the latest PF features/syntax but unfortunately the interfaces are dropping packets and no one on the OpenBSD mailing list have been able to help me. Unfortunately for me I'm not a programmer so I'm not able to contribute/fix it myself but I have to rely on the community/devs. I have reverted back to FreeBSD 12.1 and still being super happy with it!
- centimeter 6y agoMy home router and firewall. Was really great to set up! A fraction of the config required for Linux.