Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 08:23:08 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs OpenBSD Message-ID: <15034.2764.175401.913870@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <11501549@toto.iv>
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Doug Young <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> types: > I'm comparing them both myself .... certainly appears that OpenBSD > is more pro-active in security related areas, firewalling is enabled > by > default instead of requiring a kernel compile You don't need to recompiled the kernel to get firewalling on FreeBSD. ipfw is available as a module, and if you set up the config files for a firewall, it'll be loaded when you boot a GENERIC kernel. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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