Hi Stuart, > Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 at 11:05 AM > From: "Stuart Henderson" <s...@spacehopper.org> > To: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Re: Are there open source firewall distributions which are built on > top of OpenBSD? > > On 2019-03-13, Mehma Sarja <mehmasa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My current setup is basic firewall with DHCP, NAT and routing. But there is > > power in the simplicity. When something goes wrong -and it has happened > > twice due to power failures, there is so much less to deal with to bring > > the box back up. > > A standard OpenBSD installation is somewhat susceptible to power failures > though. Especially fail/back/fail again during the startup procedure while > it's relinking libraries in random order. Not saying it can't be used but > some thought is needed if you know that it's *likely* to be powered off > without shutdown, or if the power is flaky.
Based on your insightful response, I think that a machine's fail/back/ fail again while relinking may lead to some problems. What would these problems be and how could one try to mitigate these problems? If I am not wrong, a good UPS is one solution. Are there any additional precautions using the base/packages without resorting to resflash? Dhanyavaad. Regards, ab ---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|--
