On 06 Jul 2014, at 01:01, Predrag Punosevac <punoseva...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The rumors are that npf is a vaporware. npf(4) is a chain of clever data structures. How well that translates to the actual requirements of the networking domain I can't see. > DragonFly community is tiny. You mean alive and well. That's all that matters to keep us going. ;) > tiny that in-spite of HAMMER I could not use DragonFly on my production > file servers because it lacks LDAP support let alone NFSv4. Let's talk about this off-list. > FreeBSD always had its own genuine firewall solution IPFW. I haven't seen much use of ipfw(4) in the last years, and what it is (still) being used for is not capable of scaling up anymore. The clear preference seems to be pf(4) these days. > That being said OpenBSD project has its own pace which has never being > dictated by "current fashion trends" or a noise made by people like me > who don't contribute the code. I appreciate the steady course as well, although I would not label SMP as a ``current fashion trend'' that's likely to disappear again. Cheers, Franco
