On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:08:44PM -0400, Ryan Whelan wrote:
[...]
> I'm really curious why those that chose BSDs chose them?
[...]
Chances are there will be as many different answers as there are
users, but I can at least give you mine... the Soekris boards are
well adapted for light-duty use as network firewalls, VPN
concentrators, load balancers, et cetera.
OpenBSD's PF (which is also ported to FreeBSD for some time) and
IPFilter on NetBSD are far more human-readable by default than
similar Netfilter/IPtables options on GNU/Linux which tend to rely
heavily on separate wrapper-interpreters. Factor in earlier adoption
of other networking technologies like IPv6 and in-kernel IPSec (I
just *adore* the ipsec.conf syntax on OpenBSD), default network load
balancing features (relayd is excellent)... the BSDs have tended to
be a superior choice for routing and network security, historically
speaking, and are usually lighter-weight than typical Linux distros
(embedded distros like Emdebian notwithstanding).
This is not to say I'm a *BSD apologist. I'm an avid Debian
GNU/Linux user and contributor, and am also eager to start playing
around to hopefully see what bits of Debian's GNU/kFreeBSD port are
effective on the Soekris platforms.
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