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OpenBSD Books On The Way

Posted by timothy on from the tightly-closed-fully-open dept.

*no comment* writes "Well with all the advancements in PF and secure code wouldn't it be nice if someone would write a book on OpenBSD??? Oh wait, someone is. A guy named Jacek Artymiak is doing just that. The OpenBSD Gazetteer is scheduled for release shortly after the release of what may be the best release ever of OpenBSD (IMHO). Vastly improved PF, ALTQ, and BIND 9 is now default, not to mention procop stack protection. Out of the box it's ready to go as a firewalling packet-filtering bandwidth-throttling machine. A thread had started to pick up over at deadly.org."

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  1. Cool! by moonboy · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is fantastic news! I've been an avid fan of OpenBSD for quite sometime now and this type of concise reference guide has been needed for sometime now. Granted the OpenBSD documentation available on the Internet is extremely well done, but I think it'll be great to have it consolidated in book form especially when Jacek will update the book with each full version upgrade of OpenBSD.

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    1. Re:Cool! by nocomment · · Score: 4, Funny

      We get it you're an avid fan of OpenBSD. ;-)

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  2. firewalling packet-filtering bandwidth-throttling by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    to that, add kick ass vpn. obsd's ipsec implementation is very clean.

    i'm hoping to send in some diff's in a few days that adds bsdauth support to isakmpd. that way, we won't have any need for the $2k/year fw-1 license.

  3. Absolute OpenBSD by Eric+Wayte · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And this book will be out Summer 2003.

    1. Re:Absolute OpenBSD by Eric+Wayte · · Score: 3, Informative

      I know it's bad form to reply to your own post, but the link should be book

  4. Re:Tsarkon Reports: Easy OpenBSD book by Cold+Drink · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Maybe if other projects cared as much about thier code as the OpenBSD guys do, the OpenBSD wouldn't be necessary.

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  5. Bet the publisher isn't O'Reilly... by afabbro · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Back in the 2.5ish days, I submitted a detailed proposal to O'Reilly to write an OpenBSD book. Their answer was "not interested, no market". I knew they were wrong...

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  6. Re:Please define acronyms by raddan · · Score: 2, Funny
    Yes, funny joke.

    Okay, in case you're not joking: PF = packet filter

    Packet Filter, the best way to do whatever you want with your packets.

  7. Should be good - check out Jacek's writing... by jackbox · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I can't wait! I've been following a series of articles that he wrote for O'Reilly OnLamp.com. (Like this one) Very well written, and they address practical stuff.