On Monday 22 May 2006 Liviu Daia wrote: > On 22 May 2006, Lars Hansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 22 May 2006 17:27, Liviu Daia wrote: > > > Ok, let me rephrase this. How realistic will be to run an > > > OpenBSD firewall or router without xbase a few years from now?
Extremely realistic. Base install of OpenBSD is an excellent firewall and router platform, without the need for X. what is *your* definition of a router or a firewall? [snip] > > > packages of console applications now depend on X at run time even > > > though that could be avoided with minimal fuss (example: mrtg), > > > > It's even easier to *not* run mrtg *on* the router/firewall. SNMP, > > symon and pfstatd exist for a reason. > > Sure, but that's not what I'm asking. Sure, but that is not how it works in OpenBSD. *You* submit patches, and make sure that these patches *work* not only on your setup, but for everyone and every supported achitecture. *You* work to get these patches committed. And everyone gets a better system as a result. Not contributing and only whining only gets you this far. > > Also, so far I've only seen 1 "console application" that requires X at > > runtime. > [...] > > Mrtg, rrdtools, pftop, everything else depending on GD. I am sure pftop does _not_ depend on GD. Regards Can -- Can E. Acar, PhD, CISSP
