Author: Adrian Alexdre

Just a little off topic post from the usual, but Marbled
Fennec Networks appears to have made it through a full
year of operations without having to be offlined to cold
storage for the first time in many years!

Thank you to our volunteer staff and project members who
have worked on getting us to where we are. The project has
changed, matured, been rebuilt and restructured over the
past year and operations have become a lot smoother and
far more predictable. We went from a single pfSense instance
running on a VPS to a full on network virtualized on our own
dedicated hardware. There is game servers running, a dual proto
network stack with endpoints, fully routable allocations and
various inhouse support services now. I hadn’t planned on the
project growing the way it did, but having the help I have from
you all has come together to make a space on internet that we
can call ours and be proud of. I look forward to continuing
to work with you all well into the future!
–Skylar, Lead Network Engineer

Our team noticed that a handful of our PTR records were
incorrectly set and some of them were doubled up for
different host, which comes from the old v2 network
layout. The important routing PTR entries have been
updated to match the current network, v3.

Hey guys,
Our volunteers have updated all five router VMs to the
latest OPNsense firmware release. It doesn’t appear to
have broken anything, but as always, let us know via the
support desk if anything isn’t working correctly.

One of the things we really wanted to focus on but was just a bit
outside of our knowledge was being able to route entire IPv6 subnets
to our project members in the form of a site-to-site tunnel. For a
while now, our project members have been making use of our services
directly on their devices on an as needed basis, which while do
offer such, that was never the intended purpose of the project.

The idea has always been to route out a subnet to be used on the
LAN side of a homelab router. We reached that milestone after
having a few days to sit down and crawl the OPNsense and WireGuard
documentation pages.

Last night, we finally figured out how to get WireGuard setup between
two routers, on different physical servers, and route a /64 subnet
across the tunnel. This has been one of our goals for the project and
we figured it out. Along with the better understanding of the peer
based connections in WireGuard, we should be able to start offering
fully routed subnets within a few days.

Just have to finish publishing the documentation internally for our
volunteers and project members to make use of.