[geeks] Moving on

[Phil Stracchino]

Ido Dubrawsky wrote:
> After four and a third years at Cisco I have decided to move on to
> another position.  While certainly not as comfortable as the position
> at Cisco that I currently have (my commute is down the stairs and down
> the hall to my office...now I will have to initially commute down to
> McLean, VA. and in the summer the office is moving to Sterling, VA.)
> this new position will allow me to grow more than I can at Cisco.

Best of fortune in your new venture, Ido!

>  I've already replaced the 2621 router with a
> SPARCstation 10 running Solaris 9 with IPF (boy, that was a pain to
> get working...IPF didn't behave like I expected it to...but that's
> another story...and yes, I could have installed NetBSD on it -- or
> OpenBSD on it and run a more modern -- and less burdensome operating
> system -- but I needed something up and running ASAP).

I'm finding the U5/OpenBSD/pf combination to be working extremely well 
for me.



-- 
  Phil Stracchino
  Renaissance Man, Unix generalist, Perl hacker
  phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net
  phil.stracchino at ceva-dsp.com
  Mobile: 408-592-8081