I can tell you that *BSD is alive and well, and if anything is thriving in the network, data centre, and hosting environments. A search of the NANOG mailing lists (anyone teaching networking should know what NANOG is), and the webhostingtalk.com forums (where many hosting providers participate) will show that people are running BSD for networking in production.
Speaking of antiquated, the IPTables code was originally supposed to have been replaced by Nf-hipac back in 2005. IPTables is completely ineffective for large rule sets, due to the linear increase in resources required for each rule. Features like hashing of address lists, source-based rate-limiting, stateful failover, and synproxy are either missing or too immature for production use. Cheers, Han Hwei Woo TS Lura wrote: > Thank you all for the replies. > > I might do a lecture on my own, presenting OpenBSD. > > If I where to do that it, as a subsection, would be cool to give references > to other institutions that are using OpenBSD and why they are using it. > > Why one would use OpenBSD, over eg. GNU/Linux. > Now I would site preemptive security, code correctness, it's easy to use; > enable daemons through rc.conf, pf, openssh, possibility for zfs in kernel?, > good documentation, jailing of daemons. > > It would also be cool to highlight any specific snazzy functionality. > Something that would get (MSc/geeky) people to think. "ooh, that's > cool" particular in relation to networking. > eg. I think the scrubbing of packets in PF is kinda cool, pftop, see > the interruptcounter for the nic and serial console. :P > > Maybe something related to cryptography, or general network gear(routers, > switches) , or any new cool feature in PF or something > that's expensive with Cisco but cheap and good with *BSD. ipsec?, VoIP? cool > feature in OpenSSH. > > > .tsl > > > On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 12:57 AM, Corey <clinge...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> On 02/13/2010 02:06 AM, TS Lura wrote: >> >> >>> I feel it's game over, at this point. But maybe you guys have some >>> suggestion about good arguments that might persuade my professor? >>> >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> TSLura. >>> >>> >> You can look at it this way: you will have a leg up on your classmates >> because you have done enough self-study to be at least aware of BSD, aand >> OpenBSD in particular. They, on the other hand (well, some of them at >> least), will equate Unix/Open Source with Linux.
