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Francis Begyn
Personal blog · francis.begyn.be/blogprogrammingsystems
Francis Begyn's personal blog at francis.begyn.be covers programming and systems. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Using Nixos as a Router”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Francis Begyn's NixOS home-router write-up, which one commenter used as the base for nftables router rules. The comments cite it as a source and do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Using Nixos as a Router4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-02-06
What Hacker News says?
During this week I've been playing around with replacing my USG with my existing home server - it already has two NICs - my first thought was to run OPNSense in a VM but nftables on NixOS seems to work well enough - there are a few examples floating online [0,1]. OpenBSD even supports the USG [2] but I couldn't think of much reason to keep the extra hardware. The next thing I want to do is reflash my Unifi APs with…
Comment linking /blog/nixos-home-router
on “Ubiquiti all but confirms breach response iniquity”Submitted Using Nixos as a Router as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI would love to see NixOS-style declarative management brought to one (or more) of the BSDs. I'm currently building out a NixOS-based router to replace an old and dying Ubiquiti Edgerouter Lite. BSD would be perfect for the job but the ability of NixOS to have the entire system configured declaratively is enough of a killer feature to get me to use it over something BSD-based. if anyone is interested in pursuing som…
Comment linking /blog/nixos-home-router
on “Operating systems battle: OpenBSD vs. NixOS”I based much of the configuration on [1] but I took the nftables rules from the official nftables wiki. [1] https://francis.begyn.be/blog/nixos-home-router
Comment linking /blog/nixos-home-router
on “NixOS 22.11 “Raccoon” Released”