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Gary
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 15 Jun 2006
Posts: 3
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 Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 11:58 pm Post subject:
Re: difference btw OpenBSD and FreeBSD
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There is at least one major change that comes to mind that was made prior
to 3.0's release; the change from IPFilter to pf. A brief summary may be
found here: http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/intro.html
The subsequent licensing audit was rather important as well as it ensured
that the entire code base was fully BSD license compliant.
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John McGrail
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 23 Feb 2005
Posts: 22
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On 2006-06-21, Tim Judd <tjudd01@hotmail.com> wrote:
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I recently found that the
builtin DHCPd is not from ISC -- you can't get a version number out of
it nor any copyright information either. Certain DHCPd flags in ISC's
source tarball work OpenBSD's builtin complains.. That's another thread
though. 
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The builtin dhcpd started out as the ISC version. Then was "reworked" by
an OpenBSD developer. This I learned from the man page. Which also
contains info about what options work.
There's not a lot of files in dhcpd. You could diff source if you were
really inclined to figure out how different it is from the ISC one.
Alternately, you could install the isc dhcp server. It's available in
ports and likely as a prebuilt package.
--
ratfood@food.skaterat.net
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Tim Judd
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 06 Jun 2006
Posts: 19
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| Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 11:54 pm Post subject:
Re: difference btw OpenBSD and FreeBSD
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acord wrote:
| Quote: | Hi,
It has be 6 years since I used OpenBSD 2.7. It was unstable when tcp/ip
stack is flooded. I wonder in its new release how much it has been
improved and had its tcp/ip implementation match freebsd? Does it
support smp like FreeBSD does?
Thanks
A
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Overall, I seem to be favoring OpenBSD more and more over FreeBSD
because when I think of server, which involves DHCPd, DNS, VPNs, etc
etc.. most OSs you have to install that separately. OpenBSD has all
the tools I mentioned, plus many more (like IPv6 support, on the KAME
project like FreeBSD). The TCP/IP v4 stack I don't know what's it based
from but I've never had a problem with it.
I started abandoning FreeBSD when their v5 came out -- it just didn't
fit me the way Open does now. I trust Open for anything I do. It's got
most (if not all) tools builtin that I would ever need, lacking samba
(which is pretty special in of itself). I recently found that the
builtin DHCPd is not from ISC -- you can't get a version number out of
it nor any copyright information either. Certain DHCPd flags in ISC's
source tarball work OpenBSD's builtin complains.. That's another thread
though. :)
For a server, I can't see another OS that I'd rather have. As a
workstation (which I'm also experimenting with), it seems quite well. I
have to build a lot of packages I like, but there are a LOT that are
with OpenBSD package system (complete DVD including all packages and
stuff is about 2.8GB, I think). I know Free has more, but I can
generally build anything I need.
HTH. TTYL
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jKILLSPAM.schipper@math.u
*nix forums Guru Wannabe
Joined: 13 Nov 2005
Posts: 202
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| Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 9:50 am Post subject:
Re: difference btw OpenBSD and FreeBSD
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acord <acord@telpacific.com.au> wrote:
| Quote: | Hi,
It has be 6 years since I used OpenBSD 2.7. It was unstable when tcp/ip
stack is flooded. I wonder in its new release how much it has been
improved and had its tcp/ip implementation match freebsd? Does it
support smp like FreeBSD does?
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The TCP/IP stack is very solid, in many respects better than that of
almost all others. It matches FreeBSD to some - both are based on the
KAME project, IIRC - but will differ in many, subtle, ways.
OpenBSD does support SMP, but the kernel does not run in parallel (i.e.,
running a webserver on a SMP system makes sense; running a firewall
doesn't). The support could be better.
Joachim |
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acord
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 12 Mar 2006
Posts: 18
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| Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 8:34 am Post subject:
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Hi,
It has be 6 years since I used OpenBSD 2.7. It was unstable when tcp/ip
stack is flooded. I wonder in its new release how much it has been
improved and had its tcp/ip implementation match freebsd? Does it
support smp like FreeBSD does?
Thanks
A |
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