Anyone Using *BSD Here?
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Just curiosity, I am a pretty big fan of the BSD operating system family. Anyone here using any BSD, like FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD or Dragonfly in the community? We really do not have any but have used it in the past and plan on having a bit in our lab environment which is coming online soon.
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@scottalanmiller Not at the moment.
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@ajstringham when I'm on a Mac I do
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@scottalanmiller Once I get that HP server for my home lab I'm retiring my DD-WRT router for Pfsense, which is FreeBSD isn't?
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@Bill-Kindle said:
@scottalanmiller Once I get that HP server for my home lab I'm retiring my DD-WRT router for Pfsense, which is FreeBSD isn't?
Yes. pfSense is built on NanoBSD which is just a stripped down installer for FreeBSD.
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@Bill-Kindle Why are you retiring a dd-wrt router?! For shame!
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@ajstringham said:
@Bill-Kindle Why are you retiring a dd-wrt router?! For shame!
Hardware limitation of current router, no DDwrt fault.
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BSD is awesome because it will install on anything. Nothing runs on more hardware types than BSD.
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@Bill-Kindle said:
@ajstringham said:
@Bill-Kindle Why are you retiring a dd-wrt router?! For shame!
Hardware limitation of current router, no DDwrt fault.
Ok, so gets yourself a new and better router that can handle dd-wrt. WNDR4000 works great for this. Netgear N750.
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@ajstringham said:
@Bill-Kindle said:
@ajstringham said:
@Bill-Kindle Why are you retiring a dd-wrt router?! For shame!
Hardware limitation of current router, no DDwrt fault.
Ok, so gets yourself a new and better router that can handle dd-wrt. WNDR4000 works great for this. Netgear N750.
I think he's looking for more business class OS and hardware. Netgear N750 is just upper end consumer gear, not even a ProSafe (entry level business class.) DD-WRT is only for low end embedded devices, not serious hardware.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@ajstringham said:
@Bill-Kindle said:
@ajstringham said:
@Bill-Kindle Why are you retiring a dd-wrt router?! For shame!
Hardware limitation of current router, no DDwrt fault.
Ok, so gets yourself a new and better router that can handle dd-wrt. WNDR4000 works great for this. Netgear N750.
I think he's looking for more business class OS and hardware. Netgear N750 is just upper end consumer gear, not even a ProSafe (entry level business class.) DD-WRT is only for low end embedded devices, not serious hardware.
I've taken that kind of hardware and made rock solid devices before. The hardware isn't bad. The firmware they load is and it cripples them most times.
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No matter what you load on that hardware, it can't, for example, push 300Mb/s. It just lacks the "oomph." With a lot of modern cable and fiber connections, traditional firewall hardware struggles to keep up. Add in UTM features and it really gets to be problematic.
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@scottalanmiller The problem is that I still have a WRT54G :). Not the old school antenna one either, this is the UFO model. My main problem is that it lacks enough flash memory to really do anything with it. Pfsense is going to get me a close as I can get for now to anything that is used in a commercial setting.
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Haven't used BSD since my days at Data General. DG/UX was a hybrid, BSD for the file system (faster and more robust), networking used streams from ATT Sys V. I have now dated myself.
