On Thursday 02 June 2005 17:09, mdff wrote: > /off the records/ > anyway... i wonder, why one want's to run obsd on a machine, if > there is an os written for this type of hw... if i had to choose > between any other os and solaris on a sun-sparc, i always would > run solaris... make's sense, doesn't it?
I run OpenBSD/sparc64 on an SBus Ultra 1 with a qfe as a router/firewall for a home LAN with ADSL connection. The hardware was available cheaply, so it wasn't worth buying a different box to use. I want to use pf for firewalling (it seems to be an excellent IPv4/IPv6 firewall, and it's easy to configure). Given the choice between porting pf to Solaris or using OpenBSD/sparc64 (which has pf already included), I chose to install OpenBSD. -- Simon Farnsworth [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
