Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 11:58:52 +0100 (BST) From: Dave Roberts <djr@saa-cons.co.uk> To: Firewalls Mailing List <Firewalls@GreatCircle.COM> Subject: Solaris2.5 and BSD* - Facts Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.91.960410115650.40704A-100000@haddock.saa-cons.co.uk>
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/* * 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" ]=-
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