If the CCC-Chaosday wasn't just in german...
They showed a 25-lines-of-code program which can easily bypass any personal firewall (Zone Alarm, Kerio, Norton, whatever).
open has all these modified programs that just make it slower getting proper security updates, plus netbsd will run on almost anything you have lying around
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Anonymous2006-05-26 17:41
NetBSD runs on my watch
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Anonymous2006-05-27 6:09
>>25
As far as I'm aware of, any platform that the two share, OpenBSD is more secure on it. NetBSD may be faster (it certainly beats FreeBSD), but speed isn't something you need on your router! ;)
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Anonymous2006-05-27 6:31 (sage)
>>27 but speed isn't something you need on your router!
Uh, yes. Yes it is.
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Anonymous2006-05-27 7:03
I've seen routers go DO NOT WANT with just one eMule instance. They were not PCs though, but cheap Ethernet-xDSL routers.
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Anonymous2006-05-27 7:09
no it's not. my p100 openbsd router/firewall had no problems with a 10mbit connection at full saturation with people running torrents and whatnot. speed is irrelevant