2011/4/14 Ryan Whelan <[email protected]>: > Has anyone migrated from a Linux to a BSD and wished the BSD could do > something you feel Linux does better or what was your biggest pain in > migrating / what do you miss the most?
My first real firewall router was Debian-based (not on Soekris hardware), and worked absolutely wonderfully. My first Soekris hardware was a net5501 and I put m0n0wall on it for a customer because he needed a GUI. Four years later, he still loves m0n0 and owns many of them. My own needs grew and I got my own 5501. I had grown fond of m0n0wall but needed more features, so I took pfsense for a drive and fell in love with it. On desktops and servers I am still a Linux man, and for many tasks I prefer CLI over GUI, but I have to admit that on the firewall I love having the GUI and the graphs. Some tasks work better in the shell, and for some mass edits I go straight to the config files, but the GUI would be hard to give up at this point for the day to day. But back to your last question, what do I miss about Linux: besides being much more familiar with Linux commands (which could equally be an argument for BSD), I always preferred the Linux traffic shaper tools to pfsense (which is, I believe, a subset of FreeBSD's or pf's). Maybe it's just a matter of me being more familiar and skilled with tc, but I had no trouble making it perform exactly the way I liked, and I can't say the same for the traffic shaper in pfsense. db _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
