Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 23:22:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, chris@calldei.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSDI giving out old info? Message-ID: <199905192322.QAA09945@usr04.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <3741BE86.54C4512B@softweyr.com> from "Wes Peters" at May 18, 99 01:24:54 pm
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> > The COM and DCOM books describe it in sufficient detail that it can > > be implemented. The one caveat is that EGCS vtable support sucks. > > Another caveat is that ActiveX is a giant can of bugs waiting to be released. > Do we really WANT to advertise support for ActiveX? I thought not. Actually, there are a large number of ActiveX modules that run on both Windows platforms and x86 Solaris. The IE version for x86 Solaris depends upon it. > > These are supported via the WIDE/INRIA/LANL code, though the WIDE stuff > > appears more mature. FreeBSD is not, however, shipping it. > > 3rd party? Installation's a bitch... unless you have 2.2.8. > You seem to assume other vendors have *working* SNMP implementations also. > I can testify from first-hand experience that this is only sort of true. > Working == works great if you use OUR management application to manage > OUR switches/servers/hosts. I'm saying that if you're going to correct them in public, then you need to meet some definition of "works". > > > > 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. > > 3rd party then, right? Same versioning problems as the VPN (IPSEC) stuff: ot for -current, not for 3.2-RELEASE. 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-chat" in the body of the message
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