Using Bridges and Network Aliasing in Plan9 & 9Front

A demonstration of setting up a virtual network interface, connecting it to a bridge, and the other end of the bridge to a real network adapter.
Also assigning an IP address and DNS service to the virtual interface, and then exporting it and mounting that entire network stack in another namespace.
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[@sirjofri]

Thank you for the great video. I sometimes had networking issues on a local terminal, so I rimported the /net of a VPS server I have somewhere in the cloud. It was just a matter of rimport myserver /net before running the user applications. This is also a simple way to establish some kinda VPN that's enough for many use cases.

[@adventuresin9]

In my case, the goal is to map a bunch of aliases to a 1 port inside my network, and then outside servers can import those aliases. And those aliases will be listed in my local ndb, so I can just treat them as any other system on my network. I'll also be doing this for dialing out, as is mentioned in a lot of Bell Labs papers, where internal terminals import the outside facing NIC of the gateway box. Once I have my network rebuilt, I'll do some videos demonstrating simple and more complicated tunneling, both in and out.

[@sirjofri]

@@adventuresin9 I'd love to see this in action, also with some description of the concept and planning and stuff. It's sometimes hard to see the use cases for advanced Plan 9 networks, but it must be very powerful to be able to design networks within certain limitations.

[@adventuresin9]

I'm hoping to start that series of videos next week. I'm waiting on a network switch to arrive so I can hook everything together. And one of these days I'll have to work with you on getting 9Front working on the Pine Phone. A long term goal is to use a Plan9 phone to connect to a Plan9 instance on a cloud server, and tunnel back into my home network.

[@sirjofri]

@@adventuresin9 first things first, getting the kernel running there. I'm not the best at lowlevel programming, and especially not arm64, so it will take a long time if I don't get help from the pros.

[@lucasfrancesco93]

lack of documentation on the FQA seems like a bug. sand patches