From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jun 1 11: 6:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cisco.com (sword.cisco.com [161.44.208.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C95F937B423 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 11:06:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sjt@cisco.com) Received: from sjt-u10.cisco.com (sjt-u10.cisco.com [10.85.30.63]) by cisco.com (8.8.5-Cisco.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA12459; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:06:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: (sjt@localhost) by sjt-u10.cisco.com (8.8.5-Cisco.1/CISCO.WS.1.2) id OAA19302; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:06:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:06:05 -0400 From: Steve Tremblett To: Joel CARNAT Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is OpenBSD safer than other BSDs ? Message-ID: <20010601140605.M18959@sjt-u10.cisco.com> References: <20010601195419.3283ef01.joel.carnat@noos.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010601195419.3283ef01.joel.carnat@noos.fr>; from joel.carnat@noos.fr on Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 07:54:19PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG +---- Joel CARNAT wrote: | 'lo folks :-) | | I'm using OpenBSD as my home gateway and I was wondering : | is an OpenBSD box really safer than a FreeBSD one if your configure things (like inetd, ipf, ...) the same way ? | | if not, what's the point in using Open rather Free for a Gateway/Firewall/DNS cache/DHCPd ? | Much of the software is common across the BSDs, but a distinguishing feature of OpenBSD is the attention to detail in the comprehensive source code audit. Then again, problems they find get implemented in other systems based on OpenBSD's suggestion... So I guess my post is pointless because my conclusion is "inconclusive" :) -- Steve Tremblett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message