From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 11 10:45:21 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68A0937B401 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 10:45:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.tcoip.com.br (erato.tco.net.br [200.220.254.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF06943FB1 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 10:45:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@tcoip.com.br) Received: from tcoip.com.br ([10.0.2.6]) by mail.tcoip.com.br (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h1BIiue23168; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 16:44:57 -0200 Message-ID: <3E494510.2070500@tcoip.com.br> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 16:46:40 -0200 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, pt-br, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.0 as SOHO firewall, gateway -- STABLE? References: <002a01c2d1ea$5fe43920$1705010a@VELDYT> In-Reply-To: <002a01c2d1ea$5fe43920$1705010a@VELDYT> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > I have been watching this list and I have not seen much talk about the > stability of FreeBSD 5.0 (RELENG_5_0) or of its use as a server? I=20 > did see > that some people have upgraded their 4.7 servers to 5.0. Can anybody=20 > relate > their experience with the OS release? I am looking for cases in=20 > particular > for SOHO firewall/gateway environments. I have been waiting for Java=20 > and it > looks as if this release just might offer the features I need. For various reasons, 5.0 is not recommended if you are not willing to=20 put up with downtime and possible loss of data (as in, much more than=20 usual). On the other hand, if you _are_ willing to reinstall everything=20 now and then, you might use it. I have it installed on a firewall on a cluster, and I'm now trying to=20 use it for bastion host, where it's mac features can be put to good use. A question you must ask yourself, though, is if 5.0 offers any feature=20 you need that 4.7 doesn't. As far as I know, Java doesn't have any=20 special benefits on 5.0, because the multithread library is still the=20 same. I might be wrong, but... As for firewalls, I don't really see a need. I can't think of any=20 feature of use to a firewall that is present on 5.0 but not on 4.7. The=20 reason I run 5.0 on one of my firewalls is so I can help catch bugs.=20 Anything untowards happens and I can just turn it off. Moreover, I can=20 reboot it with 4.7 if I really need (a separate disk). --=20 Daniel C. Sobral Ger=EAncia de Opera=E7=F5es Divis=E3o de Comunica=E7=E3o de Dados Coordena=E7=E3o de Seguran=E7a TCO Fones: 55-61-313-7654/Cel: 55-61-9618-0904 E-mail: Daniel.Capo@tco.net.br Daniel.Sobral@tcoip.com.br dcs@tcoip.com.br To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message