A Few of My Favorite Things About the OpenBSD Packet Filter Tools

Re:A Few of My Favorite Things About the OpenBSD Packet Filt... by 1letterunixname on Saturday October 08, 2022 @09:17PM (#33137504)

Besides FreeBSD, I'm curious what/which noncommercial, non-Linux OS(es) are battle-tested at internet web ops scale. FreeBSD occupies multiple, nondescript, ubiquitous roles people aren't aware of powering key components of infrastructure in utilities like water, electricity, and delivery logistics

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Re:A Few of My Favorite Things About the OpenBSD Packet Filt... by aliqot on Saturday October 08, 2022 @10:52PM (#33137886)

OpenBSD, NetBSD, Plan9, Inferno, openVMS

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Re:A Few of My Favorite Things About the OpenBSD Packet Filt... by nine_k on Saturday October 08, 2022 @11:08PM (#33137952)

How are z/OS, AIX, or HP-UX non-commercial? In particular z/OS is still being developed and sold by IBM.

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Re:A Few of My Favorite Things About the OpenBSD Packet Filt... by unixhero on Sunday October 09, 2022 @02:30AM (#33138709)

You're extrapolating, he didn't say that.

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Re:A Few of My Favorite Things About the OpenBSD Packet Filt... by smokeyfish on Sunday October 09, 2022 @02:37AM (#33138727)

or she

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Re:A Few of My Favorite Things About the OpenBSD Packet Filt... by trasz on Sunday October 09, 2022 @04:17AM (#33139065)

>OpenVMS

I suspect by “battle-tested” they didn’t mean World War 2.

(/s of course, and trying out the x86 port is high on my TODO list.)

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Re:A Few of My Favorite Things About the OpenBSD Packet Filt... by protomyth on Sunday October 09, 2022 @09:22AM (#33140714)

On a serious note, I dearly wish someone had taken the lessons of OpenVMS into the open source world. Its clustering is amazing.

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Re:A Few of My Favorite Things About the OpenBSD Packet Filt... by zasdffaa on Sunday October 09, 2022 @10:20AM (#33141340)

Could you elaborate/provide a few reading pointers please?

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Re:A Few of My Favorite Things About the OpenBSD Packet Filt... by protomyth on Sunday October 09, 2022 @01:55PM (#33143620)

https://vmssoftware.com/products/clusters/

We had machines in two buildings with multiple machines in the cluster. You could upgrade machines in a cluster and not lose any time. I thought DragonflyBSD is trying to head in that direction with storage (HAMMER).

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Re:A Few of My Favorite Things About the OpenBSD Packet Filt... by trasz on Sunday October 09, 2022 @10:54AM (#33141737)

I believe the problem here is business-level, and this can’t really be fixed technically. The problem is, this kind of design requires organized commitment to run it to completion, and can’t work in a culture focused on dropping a half-working MVP early and then failing to follow up.

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Re:A Few of My Favorite Things About the OpenBSD Packet Filt... by aliqot on Sunday October 09, 2022 @09:36AM (#33140843)

Latest release was 2 months ago.

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Re:A Few of My Favorite Things About the OpenBSD Packet Filt... by mburee on Sunday October 09, 2022 @04:06PM (#33144727)

As much as i love Plan9, it's in dire need of bugfixes if you're gonna expose it to the net. Last official release was ~15 years ago

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Re:A Few of My Favorite Things About the OpenBSD Packet Filt... by pram on Sunday October 09, 2022 @12:00AM (#33138175)

SmartOS

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