We recently ran into an issue after upgrading a server from FreeBSD 11.2 to 12.1 where throughput via SSH pipes would crash to 48 KB/sec almost instantly after starting. The odd thing was scp (which uses SSH) was not affected. After ruling out Internet and remote host issues we discovered that the PF rule was… Read more »
Debian 8 Under Bhyve Networking Problem: Packets Over 230 Bytes Truncated
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
We’re a big fan of FreeBSD’s Bhyve hypervisor, including writing an open source lightweight management interface for it called BMT. While setting up a Debian 8 guest VM we ran into a perplexing issue where networking was not working correctly. After much troubleshooting we narrowed down the symptom to be that packets larger than 230… Read more »
SOLVED: Can’t Connect to Linux Server Behind NAT From Linux/FreeBSD But Can From Windows
Friday, November 17, 2017
Strange networking behavior while trying to access a Linux server via NAT? Does it work from one computer but not another? We may have the solution! We recently ran across a situation where a Linux server was behind NAT (for VPN purposes), and we could access it just fine from a Windows 10 computer, however… Read more »
FreeBSD / pfSense on a Zotac ZBox: link state down and ‘re0: watchdog timeout’ errors
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Recently we purchased a Zotac ZBOX-CI321NANO to replace our existing pfSense PC which was in a much larger case. There are a few variations but ours has dual 1 Gbps NICs, many USB 3.0 ports, 2 GiB of RAM, a 32 GiB SSD and is powered by a Celeron 2961Y (1.10 GHz). It has plenty… Read more »