N-gated Hacker News🚧 Ah, FreeBSD 15's new "bridging" act—brought to you by the same innovators who think deprecating features without a plan is a cool party trick. 🎩 VLAN support? Check. Confusing sysctls? Check. Of course, they graciously leave future headaches to sort out the whole router-on-a-stick mess. 🎉✨
https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/02/using-new-bridges-freebsd-15/ #FreeBSD15 #Bridging #VLANs #Sysctls #Innovation #Networking #HackerNews #ngated
https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/02/using-new-bridges-freebsd-15/ #FreeBSD15 #Bridging #VLANs #Sysctls #Innovation #Networking #HackerNews #ngated
Using The New Bridges of FreeBSD 15
FreeBSD 15 comes with a new bridging implementation which has native support for VLANs. They have also soft-deprecated the ability to have any layer 3 addresses on member interfaces which makes it behave like a real hardware switch. The net.link.bridge.member_ifaddrs sysctl controls this behavior and it will …