From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue May 18 8:36:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C75C514CC8; Tue, 18 May 1999 08:35:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA26917; Tue, 18 May 1999 08:35:39 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd026854; Tue May 18 08:35:35 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA28631; Tue, 18 May 1999 08:35:33 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199905181535.IAA28631@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: BSDI giving out old info? To: chris@calldei.com Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 15:35:33 +0000 (GMT) Cc: wes@softweyr.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19990518012439.A15570@holly.dyndns.org> from "Chris Costello" at May 18, 99 01:24:39 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > HTTP accelerator ??? > > What is an HTTP accelerator, anyway? A cache. > > ActiveX MSP (bleh!) ActiveX is pretty trivial to implement, if you know C++, and know to type: #define interface struct The COM and DCOM books describe it in sufficient detail that it can be implemented. The one caveat is that EGCS vtable support sucks. > > VPN Support > > IPsec ??? > > ISAKMP ??? These are supported via the WIDE/INRIA/LANL code, though the WIDE stuff appears more mature. FreeBSD is not, however, shipping it. > > PPTP ??? This use GRE, and is similarly trivial, although interoperability with the NT code is not, and the security sucks (open to man in the middle and replay attacks). FreeBSD is not shipping it. > > RAS MSP ??? RAS is "Remote access server". It means dial on demand PPP with network address translation, generally. > > Management > > SMNP Tools (Too bad they can't spell SNMP, huh?) BIY > > I consider ports not to be BIY... On the other hand, the port doesn't come with a MIB that lets you actually manage a FreeBSD box. FreeBSD boxes don't have sufficiently centralized configuration data, and what data there is is cached all over the place, instead of reacquired. Someone really ought to look into a socket implementation that binds to interfaces instead of to IP addresses (e.g. an interface-bound INADDR_ANY). Oh wait, I _am_ looking into that... ;^). > > Advanced Features > > IPv6 It was developed on FreeBSD! Yes > > I wonder why they put N/A, then. FreeBSD is not shipping it, and it is not a package. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message