BSD Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 14, 2023

• Tunneling vxlan(4) over WireGuard wg(4)

  I struggled to find much more info than Reyk’s talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufeEP_hzFN0) and the man pages so thought it would be useful to document.

• [Old] VXLAN over WireGuard

  So it’s a way to stretch a Layer 2 network between data centers and sites. This is great but what if you don’t have a leased line between sites or an existing VPN, can we bundle it all into one config/pair of devices. A VXLAN server at Site A and a VXLAN Client at Site B, with Site A having the network you’d like to extend into Site B: [...]

• Using /bin/eject with USB flash drives

  Following a wide-ranging thread on misc@ with the subject Safely remove USB drive, Crystal Kolipe wrote an article about how OpenBSD handles removable media, centered around the eject(1) command, also known as mt(1).

• Implementing the MTRETEN ioctl on sd devices

  Today we've seen how to implement the basic functionality required to make the eject -t command work on usb flash drives.