again i gotta' chip in w/my $0.02 ...
1. hp ports to bsd waaaay to proprietary for my taste.
2. they make good hardware , truly solid as a rock but the
support is horrid.
3. porting to hp has a history of becoming staid, due to #1 above.
bottom line ---run hpux native -- then you have no problem with porting.
piranha...
>From: Dennis Dai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: J Weismann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>CC: Jose Nazario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: HP-UX and firewall building
>Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 11:08:20 -0800
>
>Jose Nazario wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, J Weismann wrote:
> >
> > > I recieved a large quantity of HP-UX 712/60 machines and am interested
> > > in putting a BSD flavor on it. After looking around a bit I think Net
> > > and Open BSD will work. Has anyone had any success in putting it on
> > > and using them as a firewall/NAT/DHCP box or even an IDS snooper?
>[snip]
> >
> > learn HPUX. it's a valuable (read $$$) skill to have.
> >
> > they have nice memory and hard drives in them. :)
> >
>
>Definitely.
>
>Also you should be able to get a y2k updated HP-UX 10.20 from HP for
>free, once you own such a workstation.
>
>Dennis
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