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FreeBSD Gets 'Fast IPsec' Implementation

Posted by michael on from the better,-faster:-pick-any-two dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Sam Leffler (yes, one of the authors of the BSD Design and Implementation book you have on your bookshelf if you know anything with operating systems) has just committed a new FAST_IPSEC implementation to the FreeBSD 5.x source tree. It's a merge of the KAME IPsec implementation and the OpenBSD hardware crypto accelerated IPsec implementation. You can read the commit message here."

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  1. Things preventing me from using FreeBSD: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Although I'm well impressed with the development methodology and stability of FreeBSD, I'm tied to using Linux on my desktop right now because of the following four things. I know this is quite OT, but I've tried other places for questions...

    1) USB joypad support. Apparently non-existant, although I see some references to it in ports like BZFlag. FreeBSD USB page claims support may come in the future.

    2) Hardware 3D. Work is ongoing here, but right now it's a bit of a messy job and I'm hoping it will be fully in the kernel with 5.0.

    3) Sound -- Linux gives me two /dev/dsp[0,1] devices, but AFAICT FreeBSD only has one. Yeah, I know I can use something like EsoundD, but it'd be nicer to have it this way. Any clues?

    4) /bin/cp. Yeah, strange, but I tried to copy a large number of MP3 files from a backup CD onto my FreeBSD installation, but its cp died with "too many files" or the like. Had to "cp a* b* c*", then "d* e* f*" -- shame the GNU tools can do this without hassle.

    So, this probably deserves no mod points, but if anyone has any info here (should be clear that I've done some research!), please let me know.