From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 22 6:23:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D403237B71A for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 06:23:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 29233 invoked by uid 100); 22 Mar 2001 14:23:08 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15034.2764.175401.913870@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 08:23:08 -0600 To: "Doug Young" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs OpenBSD In-Reply-To: <11501549@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Young types: > I'm comparing them both myself .... certainly appears that OpenBSD > is more pro-active in security related areas, firewalling is enabled > by > default instead of requiring a kernel compile You don't need to recompiled the kernel to get firewalling on FreeBSD. ipfw is available as a module, and if you set up the config files for a firewall, it'll be loaded when you boot a GENERIC kernel. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message