On 12/18/2009 10:12 PM, Peter Serwe wrote:
> You can't patch the Berkeley Packet Filter into Linux. Linux kernel doesn't
> support it.
>
> and...
>
> Despite a cacophonous chorus of replies directing you to the right tool for
> the job, you insist on sticking with Linux.
>
> If you want to use the wrong tool for the job, by all means, use
> ipset/iptables - have a great time with it. When it doesn't
> give you the performance you want, then you will probably go buy something
> else.
>
> I don't care how you pretty up iptables and it's predecessor, ipchains, it's
> still a black eye on Linux comparatively speaking.
>
> Berkeley invented TCP/IP, the Berkeley TCP/IP stack is implemented on just
> about every platform/OS combination there is.
>
> Berkeley *is* networking. And yes, the community around BSD are assholes,
(I'd like to say that all other BSD communities are very friendly; the
one exception is the OpenBSD guys. OTOH, they're sometimes more than on
the right track: E.g., when they say 'open source', they mean it.
GNU/Linux is as lame as the FreeBSD guys, as both allow tainted stuff,
as binary-only drivers (nVidia, e.g.). NetBSD is neither nor.
Timo
> but they are semi-entitled. Their shit is way
> better documented than just about anything else in Open Source, including
> most things Linux.
>
> Peter
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