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Ask Slashdot: Migrating a Router From Linux To *BSD?

Posted by timothy on from the hiring-a-new-traffic-cop dept.

An anonymous reader writes I'm in the camp that doesn't trust systemd. You can discuss the technical merits of all init solutions all you want, but if I wanted to run Windows NT I'd run Windows NT, not Linux. So I've decided to migrate my homebrew router/firewall/samba server to one of the BSDs. Question one is: which BSD? Question two: where's some good documentation regarding setting up a home router/firewall on your favorite BSD?
It's fine if the documentation is highly technical, I've written linux kernel drivers before :) (Got a question? You can Ask Slashdot, too.)

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  1. Re:pfsense by IMightB · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Love PfSense doubleplus from me as well. However, I don't understand the blatant systemd misrepresentation/hatred

  2. Two things by Richy_T · · Score: 5, Interesting

    1) Don't run your fileserver on your router/firewall. You're asking for problems.

    2) Not all Linuxes run Systemd (Yay Slackware). I have nothing against the BSDs and they are probably better for networking anyway.

    Personally I have Tomato on my firewall/router and use Slackware for my server needs. Serves me pretty well.