From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Aug 24 9:29:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC984152AB for ; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 09:27:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from [204.68.178.39] (helo=softweyr.com) by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11JIUo-000677-00; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 09:28:22 -0600 Message-ID: <37C2BA15.AE32C1EE@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 09:28:21 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Philipp Mergenthaler Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VPN for FreeBSD 2.2.8 and 3.2 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Philipp Mergenthaler wrote: > > Hi, > > Wes Peters wrote: > > Apparently Darren didn't read the blurbs about the Linux Death Match > > at the recent Chaos Computer Club campout in Germany. It was won by > > a FreeBSD box with NO offensive effort, only defense. > > Actually it was a Debian 2.1 box. That team had more experience with > FreeBSD (and considered briefly to replace the Linux with that) and > installed some programs off of a FreeBSD CD. Somehow this got blown > up in the news... > > See e.g. (in German): > http://www.de.freebsd.org/de/archive/de-bsd-chat.99/0176.html > news:///<7p9r88$6bt$1@gamma.ray.org> > > Both are accounts of participants of that team. > A rough translation of the former mail: > "... That doesn't exactly fit the truth, but it's good press :-). > The others "stole" our net access with a tcp/udp connection resetter. > So I asked someone to fetch my FreeBSD 3.2 CDs, since they have the > unmodified sources in distfiles/. That wouldn't have been possible > with Redhat-CDs :-)" Still not bad press, is it? ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://softweyr.com/ wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message