Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
ISC has been proudly using FreeBSD in production for a long time, including to serve critical internet infrastructure with a global user base (including you!), from the DEC Alpha days up till now, mostly on bare-metal.
In this talk I'll go over some of how we (and I) got here, how we've managed far-away installs and upgrades without remote hands during a global pandemic, and how we believe that in a Linux-centric world, BSD gives us an advantage, not only in diversity, but from the community, and touch on how a single FreeBSD box has replaced an install that used to consist of separate routers and switches.
We'll cover some of our MacGyver moments, share some head-scratchers, and even cover some of the things we'd love to see in the future, both from the community as well as where we're hoping to go.
If the conference leaders think it wise, this talk could also include a light touch on how BGP and Anycast work, both in general, as well as how the global routing table is affected by the less-and-more specific routes to F that we announce to keep local traffic local, and how ISC works with its CDN partner. (These are not BSD-specific topics, but the maturity of reasonable routing daemons in ports have meant that we can now do this without needing an upstream router).
For more information, please visit:
bsdcan.org/2025
- and -
bsdcan.org/2025/timetable/timetable-Running-a-root.html
ISC has been proudly using FreeBSD in production for a long time, including to serve critical internet infrastructure with a global user base (including you!), from the DEC Alpha days up till now, mostly on bare-metal.
In this talk I'll go over some of how we (and I) got here, how we've managed far-away installs and upgrades without remote hands during a global pandemic, and how we believe that in a Linux-centric world, BSD gives us an advantage, not only in diversity, but from the community, and touch on how a single FreeBSD box has replaced an install that used to consist of separate routers and switches.
We'll cover some of our MacGyver moments, share some head-scratchers, and even cover some of the things we'd love to see in the future, both from the community as well as where we're hoping to go.
If the conference leaders think it wise, this talk could also include a light touch on how BGP and Anycast work, both in general, as well as how the global routing table is affected by the less-and-more specific routes to F that we announce to keep local traffic local, and how ISC works with its CDN partner. (These are not BSD-specific topics, but the maturity of reasonable routing daemons in ports have meant that we can now do this without needing an upstream router).
For more information, please visit:
bsdcan.org/2025
- and -
bsdcan.org/2025/timetable/timetable-Running-a-root.html
