From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 18 12:25:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E211514EDA; Tue, 18 May 1999 12:25:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id MAA16770; Tue, 18 May 1999 12:24:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id MAA10160; Tue, 18 May 1999 12:24:57 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn1.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA13185; Tue, 18 May 99 12:24:54 PDT Message-Id: <3741BE86.54C4512B@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 13:24:54 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert Cc: chris@calldei.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSDI giving out old info? References: <199905181535.IAA28631@usr08.primenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > HTTP accelerator ??? > > > > What is an HTTP accelerator, anyway? > > A cache. Pretty much. A smart cache, maybe. In FreeBSD, you pronounce it "squid." > > > ActiveX MSP (bleh!) > > ActiveX is pretty trivial to implement, if you know C++, and know to > type: > > #define interface struct > > The COM and DCOM books describe it in sufficient detail that it can > be implemented. The one caveat is that EGCS vtable support sucks. Another caveat is that ActiveX is a giant can of bugs waiting to be released. Do we really WANT to advertise support for ActiveX? I thought not. > > > VPN Support > > > IPsec ??? > > > ISAKMP ??? > > These are supported via the WIDE/INRIA/LANL code, though the WIDE stuff > appears more mature. FreeBSD is not, however, shipping it. 3rd party? > > > PPTP ??? > > This use GRE, and is similarly trivial, although interoperability with > the NT code is not, and the security sucks (open to man in the middle > and replay attacks). FreeBSD is not shipping it. 3rd party, or "why would you want to do that?" > > > RAS MSP ??? > > RAS is "Remote access server". It means dial on demand PPP with > network address translation, generally. But BSDI has that, too, so they must applying some other definition to it. Screw it, I'm changing it to "Std." Userland PPP wins again! ;^) > > > Management > > > SMNP Tools (Too bad they can't spell SNMP, huh?) BIY > > > > I consider ports not to be BIY... > > On the other hand, the port doesn't come with a MIB that lets you > actually manage a FreeBSD box. FreeBSD boxes don't have sufficiently > centralized configuration data, and what data there is is cached all > over the place, instead of reacquired. Someone really ought to look > into a socket implementation that binds to interfaces instead of to > IP addresses (e.g. an interface-bound INADDR_ANY). Oh wait, I _am_ > looking into that... ;^). You seem to assume other vendors have *working* SNMP implementations also. I can testify from first-hand experience that this is only sort of true. Working == works great if you use OUR management application to manage OUR switches/servers/hosts. > > > Advanced Features > > > IPv6 It was developed on FreeBSD! Yes > > > > I wonder why they put N/A, then. > > FreeBSD is not shipping it, and it is not a package. 3rd party then, right? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message