Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:08:19 +0700 From: OutBackDingo <outbackdingo@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Markus Mueller <casparos@yahoo.de>, Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Subject: Re: own OS-Name Message-ID: <200807311908.19691.outbackdingo@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080731075515.c0f01099.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <4891256E.6090903@yahoo.de> <20080731075515.c0f01099.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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Take this advice very seriously from someone who has already done this effectively, you wount be able to accomplish this yourself, it will take months, and more then just a few good c coders to accomplish. its really a bad idea for what little you gain versus the amount of work involved. On Thursday 31 July 2008 18:55:15 Bill Moran wrote: > In response to Markus Mueller <casparos@yahoo.de>: > > I will create my own *BSD OS based on FreeBSD. > > How can I change the Name of this OS ? > > I mean, that in Logfiles, for example, of servers, which I connect by > > sufing in the web and in application which locate the OS instead > > "FREEBSD" an another OS-Name "MyOS-Name" will be displayed. > > In addition to Giorgos' answer, there are tools, such as nmap, that > identify the OS by it's behaviour and not by any string that appears > anywhere. In order to convince those tools that your OS is not > FreeBSD, you'll have to alter the IP code to cause it to behave in > a manner that is unique. Good luck doing _that_ without breaking > things.
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