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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 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. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
