My 72-Hour BSD Bender: From Network Nightmare to Unix Nirvana
FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Me: A Tragicomedy in Three Acts Ladies, gentlemen, and Unix enthusiasts of all stripes, gather ‘round for a tale of network woe, BSD brilliance, and the kind of sleep deprivation usually reserved for new parents and cryptocurrency day traders. I present to you my 72-hour descent into the wonderful, maddening world of BSD. Act I: The Blinking Light of Doom Our story begins with a blinking light. Not just any light, mind you, but the PON light on my ISP’s router. For the uninitiated, PON stands for Passive Optical Network, but in that moment, it might as well have stood for “Panic! Outage! Noooooo!” ...