I have multiple FreeBSD routers across my environments across the world each having its own WAN (Internet) connectivity and using WireGuard VPN to connect all into a private network.
I would like to do
The solution is pretty simple and I will describe it on this blog post.
The default FreeBSD configuration is optimized for compatibility, not maximum network throughput. This becomes visible especially during iperf testing, routing benchmarks, or high-traffic workloads where mbuf exhaustion or CPU bottlenecks can occur. Let's discuss various turnings.
ZFS (Zettabyte File System) is a combined filesystem and volume manager, originally developed by Sun Microsystems for Solaris and now widely used on FreeBSD and other Unix-like systems.
In this blog post, we will describe ZFS and examples how to use it.
MinIO is a high-performance, S3-compatible object storage platform designed for scalability, resilience, and simplicity in modern cloud-native environments. Its lightweight architecture and impressive throughput make it a popular choice for both on-premises and hybrid deployments, especially when building distributed storage clusters. In this post, I’ll briefly introduce MinIO and then walk through the test environment of a six-node MinIO cluster, exploring how it behaves, performs, and scales in a real-world lab setup.
This test environment is part of potential 1 PB+ S3 Storage system. The conceptual design of system is depicted below.
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| Conceptual Design - S3 Object Storage |
FreeBSD is a free, open-source operating system based on the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), a branch of UNIX developed at the University of California, Berkeley. It’s known for being stable, secure, highly performant, and extremely well-suited for servers, networking, storage, and appliances.
Relevant blog post: Typical tasks after FreeBSD installation
In this blog post I will document basic FreeBSD 14.3 operational procedures.
These operational procedures are
Let's focus on basic operational procedures ...