On 8/03/10 09:25 AM, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
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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.
Last I checked, FreeBSD shipped with ipfw, pf and ipf.
At various points in time, people have decided to use one
or the other, based on what's currently in vogue.
There are differences between them and there are specific
features that are in ipfw that aren't in pf/ipf (and of course
vice versa.)
As a member of the FreeBSD community, I don't get the
impression that adding ipfw to OpenSolaris would help
OpenSolaris in a significant way.
The main feature of FreeBSD's networking that I'd like to
see considered would be dummynet, e.g:
http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/dummynet/
Hopefully simnet can evolve to do some of that.
Darren
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