From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 10 18:27:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA24401 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 18:27:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from maui.com (langfod@waena.mrtc.maui.com [199.4.33.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA24395 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 18:27:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from langfod@localhost) by maui.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA14087 for hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 15:27:08 -1000 Received: from relay7.UU.NET (relay7.UU.NET [192.48.96.17]) by maui.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA13775 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 15:17:31 -1000 Received: from miles.greatcircle.com by relay7.UU.NET with ESMTP id QQakxh17779; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 21:15:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: (majordom@localhost) by miles.greatcircle.com (8.7.1-lists/Lists-951222-1) id DAA25776 for firewalls-outgoing; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 03:54:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtpgate.saa-cons.co.uk (haddock.demon.co.uk [158.152.16.191]) by miles.greatcircle.com (8.7.4/Miles-951221-1) with SMTP id DAA25742 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 03:54:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haddock.saa-cons.co.uk by smtpgate.saa-cons.co.uk with SMTP (5.65/1.3-eef) id AA03210; Wed, 10 Apr 96 11:58:53 +0100 Received: by haddock.saa-cons.co.uk (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/5.00) id AA21759; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 11:58:53 +0100 Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 11:58:52 +0100 (BST) From: Dave Roberts To: Firewalls Mailing List Subject: Solaris2.5 and BSD* - Facts Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk /* * This is actually a resend, but I never saw the original on the list, * and it was a day when our ISP appeared to have trans-atlantic problems. * Sorry to anyone who's seen it already. */ The last thing I want to do is start an O/S flame war, I think we've had far too many of those already. What I am looking for are bare honest facts. I need to put in a bastion host to handle the proxying, DNS stuff, etc. I would like to put this onto a pee-cee running BSD (either FreeBSD or BSDOS2.0). However, someone above me in the chain of things wants me to use a SparcServer running Solaris 2.5. I claimed that BSD was better suited for the purpose, and he said prove it. AFAIK, the facts stand as follows (please corrent me if I am wrong). BSD offers the immutable flag - Solaris does not. BSD gives me source code - Solaris does not. BSD allows me to compile stuff (ls etc) with static libs - Solaris does not (if I remember a thread a while ago). That's all I can think of. Please don't mail back with arguments about having source code or not, or static libraries vs dynamic, think those have been beaten to death :) What I would like are facts from people that have experience with both systems, or something that people with one of those systems feel is a big bonus, or a big headache. I'm assuming all the tools I want compile equally well on both systems (whatever kind of libs are used). ObOffTopic: anyone know a tool to to base64 decoding? Some of my users get their mail sent to ccMail, and their gateway doesn't understand MIME. A DOS util to do with would be great (I can't convert *everyone* to Unix and Pine! ;) Thanks in advance, Dave. -- Dave Roberts, Unix Systems Administrator, SAA Consultants Ltd, Plymouth, UK. "smap has the advantage [over bare sendmail] that it was written by somone who is almost certifiably paranoid" - Brent Chapman, London, 19 Oct 95. -=[ For PGP 2.6.3i public key, send mail with subject of "get pgp" ]=-