[20921] in SIPB IPv6
Re: limekiller pkgsrc update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Thu Dec 31 17:52:20 2009
From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Troxel <gdt@work.lexort.com>
In-Reply-To: <smu8wcj9jq8.fsf@linuxpal.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:52:16 -0500
Cc: Quentin Smith <quentin@mit.edu>, sipbv6@mit.edu
On Dec 31, 2009, at 11:44, Greg Troxel wrote:
> NetBSD still be the best OS choice on x86?
>
> I think so; the v6 networking there is very solid and the OS
> update/package management bits are very sensible. We know it works at
> the scale we need (2K+ routing table entries).
My only complaint is that we'd want to keep it current with security
updates, and the NetBSD model for that seems to be (last I looked),
"here's a patch, go recompile things". It's great to be able to
rebuild stuff yourself, but sometimes it sucks to *have* to do so.
Ken
