BSD Mania
November 2, 2002 12:09 AM
Now for some late night BSD snacks - If you are a BSD newbie, you might find the very linux ONLamp.com actually useful. If you are a BSD pro, a CD bootable firewall might interest you. And if you are neither a newbie nor a pro, securing your BSD box might be what concerns you most. OpenBSD 3.2 has been released. It boasts of a chroot'd Apache, the very reliable systrace, the finally-arrived packet filter, pf among other things. If you are more interested in the status of pf, you can check out the interview of Daniel Hartmeier, the original author of pf, at kerneltrap.org. OpenBSD has always been my favourite, more than Linux, for firewalls, for its minimal footprint(30MB, without a bit of effort), easy configuration(clocked 1 hour setups from scratch to firebreathing boxes) and almost nil maintenance(400 days without a reboot).
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Codey said...
Heehehehe....... was wondering when ONLamp was going to make an appearence here... Michael Lucas and his big scary daemons have been a fav of mine for a long time..... but it came as surprise to me that OpenBSD did not support SMP...
The comment I love on ./ was the one which answered the "what are you waiting for" line......
The comment being "A Linux port" harharhar!!
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Nilesh said...
Ya, Michael Lucas has been my favourite too. But did you know, Michael has experience on Windows 2000 and SQL Server also??!!
but it came as surprise to me that OpenBSD did not support SMP...
Ya, that's a bit of disappointment, but you can check out this -
http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html
This has been going on for last 2 years. But progress is very slow.
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Codey said...
Think I have read that about ML way back.. tho am not sure...
Hehe....... the link has info as sparse as the development itself...... now do not ask me to go and check out the CVS snapshot... ;-)
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Nilesh said...
now do not ask me to go and check out the CVS snapshot... ;-)
Next, i would have asked you to just that. ;-) But seriously speaking, the need for SMP has not been felt because OBSD runs so blazingly fast on uniproc systems. That's probably why the development has not been expedited...
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Codey said...
Speed is not really the problem here...... corporates have an undying fetish for huge boxes that cost em a bomb.... 8 way upwards....... they just do take anything that does not look like a mini spaceship seriously......
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Now for some late night BSD snacks - If you are a BSD newbie, you might find the very linux ONLamp.com actually useful. If you are a BSD pro, a CD bootable firewall might interest you. And if you are neither a newbie nor a pro, securing your BSD box might be what concerns you most. OpenBSD 3.2 has been released. It boasts of a chroot'd Apache, the very reliable systrace, the finally-arrived packet filter, pf among other things. If you are more interested in the status of pf, you can check out the interview of Daniel Hartmeier, the original author of pf, at kerneltrap.org. OpenBSD has always been my favourite, more than Linux, for firewalls, for its minimal footprint(30MB, without a bit of effort), easy configuration(clocked 1 hour setups from scratch to firebreathing boxes) and almost nil maintenance(400 days without a reboot).
5 comments have been added. Add your comments.
1. Codey said...
Heehehehe....... was wondering when ONLamp was going to make an appearence here... Michael Lucas and his big scary daemons have been a fav of mine for a long time..... but it came as surprise to me that OpenBSD did not support SMP...
The comment I love on ./ was the one which answered the "what are you waiting for" line......
The comment being "A Linux port" harharhar!!
2. Nilesh said...
Ya, Michael Lucas has been my favourite too. But did you know, Michael has experience on Windows 2000 and SQL Server also??!!
but it came as surprise to me that OpenBSD did not support SMP...
Ya, that's a bit of disappointment, but you can check out this -
http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html
This has been going on for last 2 years. But progress is very slow.
3. Codey said...
Think I have read that about ML way back.. tho am not sure...
Hehe....... the link has info as sparse as the development itself...... now do not ask me to go and check out the CVS snapshot... ;-)
4. Nilesh said...
now do not ask me to go and check out the CVS snapshot... ;-)
Next, i would have asked you to just that. ;-) But seriously speaking, the need for SMP has not been felt because OBSD runs so blazingly fast on uniproc systems. That's probably why the development has not been expedited...
5. Codey said...
Speed is not really the problem here...... corporates have an undying fetish for huge boxes that cost em a bomb.... 8 way upwards....... they just do take anything that does not look like a mini spaceship seriously......
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