OpenBSD 4.1: Puffy Strikes Again (O'ReillyNet) [LWN.net]

OpenBSD 4.1: Puffy Strikes Again (O'ReillyNet)

Posted May 4, 2007 16:07 UTC (Fri) by ArbitraryConstant (guest, #42725)
Parent article: OpenBSD 4.1: Puffy Strikes Again (O'ReillyNet)

Spiffy features of note:

hoststated: nagios-like monitoring of hosts, with automatic updates to PF rules as needed. An example would be a cluster of web servers that needs to survive the loss of any individual node.

PF and associated kernel and userspace stuff: multiple independent routing tables. This is great if you're on multiple, world-visible networks, but proper routing is not practical. A simple example of this would be if you got a cable modem and DSL. You have two IPs, but these IPs are not supposed to be adjacent.

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OpenBSD 4.1: Puffy Strikes Again (O'ReillyNet)

Posted May 4, 2007 19:26 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

What? They didn't already have multiple routing tables?

Oops. Linux has had that since 2.1.x: nice to see them catching up. :)

(sorry, was that too smug?)

OpenBSD 4.1: Puffy Strikes Again (O'ReillyNet)

Posted May 5, 2007 1:35 UTC (Sat) by ArbitraryConstant (guest, #42725) [Link]

Not exactly the same thing.

OpenBSD's PF and Linux's multiple routing tables and associated rules have a fair amount of overlap in terms of what they accomplish.

OpenBSD 4.1: Puffy Strikes Again (O'ReillyNet)

Posted May 5, 2007 18:17 UTC (Sat) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link]

nix,

The comment was too smug. pf has many real world advancements over the multiple routing tables and such. While I do not 'like' OpenBSD due to too many insults from Theo.. I do recognize that they do a lot of 'real-world' advancement of tools, kernel, etc versus academic ponderings... and due to the focused nature of the team.. they will keep plodding on one idea til they are satisfied with it (versus the shotgun approach of the Linux kernel.. which works because we have enough shotguns to eventually cover regressions (hopefully)).