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What's the difference between OpenBSD and FreeBSD. I've heard great networking things about both, but never really seen them compared side by side.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_BSD_operating_sy...
What's the difference between OpenBSD and FreeBSD. I've heard great networking things about both, but never really seen them compared side by side.
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No such thing as session synchronization for different vendors. You also need to configure everything for both of these vendors, which may or may not have equal feature sets.
It's hard to have independence without independence. You want separate, you're going to have to deal with separate.
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Medium sized stable businesses. Small shops can't afford them. Large shops (Google, Facebook) hire people and use open source software.
At the moment, network switching and routing with open source products + commodity servers can't scale like Cisco and Juniper...if you want to have a fairly standard network (OSPF, BGP, etc). Google, for example, is able to use commodity hardware because what they are routing works with a non-traditional setup...specifically a Clos network. That works for them only because their app is designed in a way that it can s…
A couple of elephants in the room: Why on earth were you running a hosting business with Cisco 2950s? Those are wiring closet desktop switches with tiny buffers. That alone probably caused a lot of pain. You didn't know about it, but they did. Second, the Juniper J4350 is a software router based on BSD. There's no special hardware in there like ASICs. It's just a PC. JunOS (historically) is based on BSD. They're movi…
I've heard nothing about JunOS moving to Linux. That would be a truly bizarre move on their part, both in terms of technical quality of Linux vs FreeBSD, and licensing headaches with the GPL. Do you have a source?
[0] http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/nethub/juniper-emb...
Doing Enterprise IT Arch work, I turned down more than one hot new system and put others through significant lab work, to avoid this fun. It's hard, it's expensive and it's why I wish more hardware was open.
What's the difference between OpenBSD and FreeBSD. I've heard great networking things about both, but never really seen them compared side by side.
According to Wikipedia [1], OpenBSD optimizes for maximum security, whereas FreeBSD optimizes for performance, and NetBSD optimizes on portability. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_BSD_operating_sy...
The only time it failed -- the ONLY time -- was due to a full hard disk. Why was the hard disk full? Silly me, I forgot to implement some sort of logging discipline and a couple years' worth of logs of attempted exploits (mainly Windows NT exploits) glancing harmlessly off OpenBSD's hull had filled the disk.
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At the moment, network switching and routing with open source products + commodity servers can't scale like Cisco and Juniper...if you want to have a fairly standard network (OSPF, BGP, etc). Google, for example, is able to use commodity hardware because what they are routing works with a non-traditional setup...specifically a Clos network. That works for them only because their app is designed in a way that it can s…
For core routing on fast networks, I tend to agree. Outside of that, commodity hardware and open source work just fine.