[geeks] Old hardware cut-off

Cory Smelosky b4 at gewt.net
Mon Feb 17 13:05:15 CST 2014


On Mon, 17 Feb 2014, Phil Stracchino wrote:

> On 02/17/14 04:20, Cory Smelosky wrote:
>> Sent from mobile device that advertises itself for no good reason
>>> On 17 Feb 2014, at 01:12, Phil Stracchino <phils at caerllewys.net> wrote:
>>> I wonder if it'll run OpenBSD...?
>>
>> Hopefully! The Linux netatack is horribly suited for...well...anything.
>> Especially routing.
>
> With an 18-megabit uplink, I doubt it'd actually matter that much...
> but yeah.  Another reason my late lamented edge router ran OpenBSD.
>

Problem isn't so much speed as the fact it's easier to get a Nobel Prize 
than it is to CONFIGURE much with the netstack.

I love the "Error: no error" messages throughout iputils. They are still 
an error.

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