The FreeBSD-native-ish home lab and network

a year ago

The author runs a FreeBSD home server named 'pingvinashen' on an old laptop, serving as an email server, web server, and public chat server (XMPP/Jabber).
The home network setup includes IPv6 via Hurricane Electric, multiple VLANs for guests, and a static IP from ISP Ucom.
The server uses FreeBSD Jails for isolation, managed by the author's tool 'Jailer', hosting services like WordPress, Git (Gitea), PostgreSQL, and automation tools (Huginn).
Other services include nginx for web traffic, BIND9 for DNS, OpenSMTPd for email, Prosody for chat, and WireGuard for VPN.
The home router, 'evn0', also runs FreeBSD, handling routing, DHCP, DNS, and VLAN management with pf for firewall security.
A Lenovo T480s laptop runs additional services like Unifi Management in a Jail and Jellyfin for media.
A Raspberry Pi 4 is repurposed as a TimeMachine backup server using Samba.
The author advocates for FreeBSD Jails over hardware virtualization for resource efficiency and prefers CLI over GUI for reproducibility.

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