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OpenBSD's PF Developers Interview

Posted by Hemos on from the reading-all-about-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "ONLamp.com has published a very long interview with 6 OpenBSD's PF developers: Cedric Berger (cedric@), Can Erkin Acar (canacar@), Daniel Hartmeier (dharmei@), Henning Brauer (henning@), Mike Frantzen (frantzen@) and Ryan McBride (mcbride@). Start reading from the first half and continue with the second part."

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  1. Re:Did they ask them... by grub · · Score: 5, Informative


    pf.conf is cryptic? The manpage and demo files in /usr/share/pf are pretty handy. If you want cryptic shit, try using a Cisco PIX. I maintain 4 of them at work and they suck donkey-wang compared to PF & carp.

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  2. pf also available for FreeBSD by FlightTest · · Score: 5, Informative

    pf has been available in ports for quite a while. Although it only works on the 5.x branch, I'm running it as my firewall on an old 166mhz Pentium.

    Personally, I find FreeBSD easier to deal with, but that's just me.

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  3. It's impossible to create reliable BSD statistics! by trons · · Score: 5, Informative

    Don't you people understand... It is not possible for Netcraft to gather any statistical data on how many BSD machines are being used, simply because no one is *forced* to make their machine identify as a BSD machine! Quote from : "There are some, even large, companies that use BSD as routers, firewalls and even servers, without people noticing. That is a reason why no one can give current usage statistics for BSD, because no one is forced to say he is using BSD at all, or in which number." http://mirbsd.bsdadvocacy.org/?bsd-intro Drawing conclusions from statistical date without proper knowledge on the subject is Bad Practice..