If you didn’t know this already, our RJ45-dwelling penguin 🐧 mascot is called Jack! Jacky, or Jackie also works 😃

This is an example of how to set up a VLAN transparent bridge with a DHCP assigned IP address. We have a system with two interfaces, or ports, named eth0 and eth1. admin@example:/> show interf...

This is the fourth post in a series about containers in Infix. This time we go back to basics for a more gentle introduction into using containers. We will use one real interface, connected to th...

Much thanks to the solid foundation curated by Buildroot, Infix can quite easily be ported to any system that supports Linux. The only real hardware requirement is “enough” RAM and storage, and if...

In this post we explore how to use the CLI to change a user’s password and set up SSH keys for authentication. User management is available in the system authentication configuration context and t...

A common task for initial setup of your operating system is to change the hostname of a device. The default is a unique name composed from the built-in default name suffixed by the last three octe...

This is the third post in a series about containers in Infix. This time we dive into using containers as “apps” to extend the system for custom firewall setups. Infix does not yet have native sup...

This is the second post about containers in Infix, the focus this time is on more advanced network setups. In particular, containers with more than one interface, and an Infix network configuratio...

A network operating system for switches and routers, that runs Docker? Yes, as of Infix v24.02 support for running containers using podman is supported. Because networking is a first class citize...

This post explains how to use Unnumbered Interfaces to simplify OSPF network setup and maintenance in Infix. Introduction When using OSPF over Ethernet point to point links, the work to make IP p...