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Adventures In Packet Filter
Or How I learned to stop worrying and love my dual WAN with routed subnet and policy based routing pf firewall One of the reasons I continue to use FreeBSD for my gateway/router/firewall is the pf firewall. My routing needs are way more elaborate than anything a pre-cooked router package like DD-WRT or even pfSense…
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FreeBSD and Multilink PPP
I’ve been running Multilink PPP with FreeBSD for several years now. Multilink PPP (sometimes called MLPPP) is a subset of the PPP protocol that allows you to bond multiple PPP tunnels and treat them as one much larger tunnel. Several DSL providers (particularly TekSavvy in Canada) support Multilink PPP on their DSL networks, allowing users…
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Hello world!
Welcome to the inaugural post for my online presence. The default wordpress headline for the first post seems relatively fitting, so it stays. I purchased mmacleod.ca a while ago with the desire to carve out my own little space on the web but the post After Branding by Tim Bray really drove home the need…