No, the ports system doesn't come close to that of FreeBSD, but it's also a much lower prioirty. AFAIK, OpenBSD doesn't have people dedicated to making ports, like FreeBSD does. Though, I'd hardly use as many ports on OpenBSD as I do on FreeBSD. IMHO, OpenBSD doesn't really need most of the ports that FreeBSD has, since you're less likely to run as much junk on it (well, at least I'm not). Bridging on Open BSD works great. I'm not sure if the ipfilter you have on your FreeBSD system is that same as that in OpenBSD 2.8, or not. I highly doubt that the OpenBSD developers would let a brken ipf slip though. Gabe On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 10:21:21AM -0600, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > Hey -- how is the ports collection on OpenBSD? Can it compare to FreeBSD at > all. I have IPFILTER running on my FreeBSD machine - but it doesn't work > with Bridging and bridging is broken again on FreeBSD-STABLE. I would use > the new bridging code from Linux for this -- but I have not found a Linux > distro to suit my needs (I want to be able to rebuild the world at any time > and to optimize the build for my CPU -- there is not a single Linux that > will do this nicely). > > Tom Veldhouse > veldy at veldy.net > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Scott Dier" <dieman+tclug at ringworld.org> > To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 9:49 AM > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Roadrunner self-install kit > > * Dave Kleist <dkleist at acm.org> [010305 09:47]: > > cable is in my neighborhood. RR has a self-install kit (Windows only) > > that gets me a discount. Does anyone know what's in this thing? Can I > > They come out and test your line, ask a 'questionarre' that we put 'good > enough' and 'really fast' on in all the entries, and then say goodbye! > > Worked great for us. The installer was even interested in our use of > linux/bsd. (We use OpenBSD mostly because ipf/ipnat kicks the crap out > of other things.) > > -- > Scott Dier <dieman at ringworld.org> <sdier at debian.org> > http://www.ringworld.org/ #linuxos at efnet > > "When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct?" -Larry Wall > > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gabe Turner | X-President, UNIX Systems Administrator, | Assoc. for Computing Machinery U of M Supercomputing Institute for | University of Minnesohta Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation | dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu "I like the same theengs you do: wax paper, boiled football leather, dog breath!!" - Commander Hoek (Ren) in "Space Madness" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------