Re: Introduction: M.Gopi Siddhardh - Interest in Cybersecurity/Networking

vermaden <[email protected]> Sat, 18 Jul 2026 21:27:18 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.hackers
Message-ID <sqvkvihlfgyisbnjiyjq@qhsu>
Hi and welcome,

nice to have You with us.

> I am particularly interested in the network stack and security aspects.
> 
> (...)
> 
> I'm currently learning the codebase and was hoping to get some
> guidance on where I could start with a "good first issue" in this
> area.

I am probably not the best person to guide You here - but as You stated 'security' and 'network' then after security audit [1] of FreeBSD Jails some of the stuff still requires resolving - that may be an interesting and good start for You.

From the other things - I would try to dig things related to VNET Jails and VALE switch and Netgraph based if_bridge(4) for example.

[1] https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-escaping-containment-a-security-analysis-of-freebsd-jails

Regards,
vermaden