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  1. Re:Unreliable Network Simulation on pfSense 1.0 Firewall Released · · Score: 1

    You should have looked under the fancy GUI. m0n0wall uses dummynet(4) for traffic shaping - and simulating various network conditions and delays was actually the initial target of it. It can do everything you ask for, m0n0wall simply didn't export its complete funtionality to the gui.

  2. Re:SmoothWall?? IPCop! on pfSense 1.0 Firewall Released · · Score: 1

    Even simpler: read the whole question before answering. He asks how to achieve this with IPCop (explicitly, implicating "use something else" should not be considered a valid answer). Furthermore he implicates that he does not know a method to achieve this and most likely regards it as impossible. Because of that, he plans to switch to pfSense because pfSense is able to accomplish this - and pfSense has CARP support.

  3. Re:Real situation with OS licences in Germany on GPL Successfully Defended in German Court · · Score: 1

    No idea which univerities you visited, but all I saw so far had campus-wide volume licenses.

  4. Re:OpenBSD is NOT open source software on OpenBSD 4.0 Pre-orders are Available · · Score: 1

    You are mixing a few things up. Badly.

    (1) The OpenBSD project made a call for donations. Wikipedia does that once a year if my memory serves me right. The thing with the OpenBSD CFD just was, that they told some unpleasant truths. They reminded some companies that what they are doing is legally fine, but morally questionable. For example one large vendor (I think it was IBM, not sure) sells OpenSSH for real money and did so for years, charges even more money for support contracts, and then points customers to the OpenSSH project if they need support. That is a simple business truth, but only very few companies like to get headlines like that.

    (2) Sun uses OpenSSH as base for their SunSSH and even hold conferences about it, but manage somehow to "forget" to invite OpenSSH developers to those events. Even after being asked for upfront. This and a few other things led to the fact that Sun does not get separate warnings/information when a critical bug in OpenSSH is found, as for example the ssh maintainers of the other BSD projects get. Sun has to find these things in the public cvs themselves. So OpenSSH is not withholding any security fixes, it is just not handing them on a silver plate to just about everyone.

    The best way to support OpenBSD and its subprojects is still: employ a developer (if you are a company) or buy CDs (if you are a user). Or do both. And more.

  5. Re:International Orders on OpenBSD 4.0 Pre-orders are Available · · Score: 1

    Yes, that is to one thing one has to know. European orders are not shipped from canada, but dispatched by Wim in belgium. Take a look at https://www.kd85.com/

  6. Re:Don't trust them farther than you can throw the on RAID Controller Shoot-Out · · Score: 1

    And on a quick check, they even wrote a FreeBSD driver under 3-clause BSD license. No signs of a blob. Got included into the FreeBSD tree around 5.4-Release.