On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 06:12:38PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > That doesn't mean the toys are not important (...all work and no > play...), they are, but they must not stop the inovation. And as we > have sacrificed niche architecture and made them non-release, we must > be also prepared to do the same with non-linux kernels if we have to. With regard to innovation, FreeBSD has had integration between traffic control and the firewall in pf for a long time. Linux still requires that you assign arbitrary integers as markers and keep them in sync between two different sets of configuration files, and I have never seen a tool to handle this automatically. pf also has had passive OS fingerprinting far longer than Linux has, and it is well-documented and works almost out of the box, unlike iptables on Linux. I would argue that the FreeBSD (and originally, OpenBSD) kernels are far more innovative (and far easier to use) in this respect. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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