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>
> Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
> I just wanted to mention that while I find
> OpenSolaris very
> attractive for everyday use I am still surprised that
> many technologies from the BSDs have not been considered by Solaris for
> inclusion, especially when the tough work is done already and the license was
> thought to permit wide adoption.
>
> Here are the descriptions for
> a couple of such tools from
> FreeBSD:
>
> IPFW (recently ported to linux too)
>
> > href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipfirewall"; target=_blank
> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipfirewall
OpenSolaris uses (and comes
> with) IPFilter rather than IPFW. If you
really do need IPFW, then it
> sounds like you'll want to launch a project
to port it over.
FreeBSD comes with IPFW and PF: both are very different but
maintainers develop preferences over time that are difficult to
change. Having it would open a space for Opensolaris on BSD
shops. Yes, I'd like it ported, and a Google Summer of Code
project did that for linux but I don't currently have the
resources (time in particular) to do it.
> Netgraph:
>
> > href="http://people.freebsd.org/~julian/netgraph.html"; target=_blank
> >http://people.freebsd.org/~julian/netgraph.html
That looks like a
> relatively large porting project to me.
It probably is, yes ... but it is pretty flexible: on FreeBSD it was also used
for Bluetooth support.
Thanks for the pointer on simnet, I'll look at it.
Pedro.
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