On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Vick Khera <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Ian Bowers <[email protected]> wrote:
>> My comment on patching was more abstract than saying "Cisco is more of
>> a fire and forget box than BSD".  a BSD box, even as a network
>> appliance, is going to have more services listening than a cisco
>> router.  Or at least that tends to be the case in practice.  Most
>>
>
> The stock freebsd install listens on basically nothing unless you tell
> it to, including ssh.  pfSense is not really a "BSD Box" either, and
> is even more tightly configured.  This argument is a big red herring.
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Shrug.  I'm not picking on pfsense, and I'm not picking on BSD.  the
"in practice" caveat is a big one since users tend to enable all kinds
of features for all kinds of reasons.  There's no red herring here.  I
do a lot of this sort of work and just wanted to hand out some
opinions I had based on experience with this particular asker's issue.

BSD is great, pfsense is great, all this is great on it's own without
cisco.  I was handing out a specific response to a specific situation,
nothing more.  Any abstractions you want to add to it aren't
necessarily my opinion.

-Ian

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