History of FOSS and stuff

[Tom Buskey]

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:

> Coleman Kane <cokane at cokane.org> writes:
>
> > Indeed it did. This is one of the predominant reasons why Linux
> > implemented their own TCP/IP stack and filtering, rather than bringing
> > in the widely-accepted-as-superior-at-the-time Berkeley stack and BPF.
>
> echo $above | sed 's/\(Berkeley\)/(and still) \1/'
>
> Linux's TCP/IP stack still has lots of problems fixed by the Berekely
> code many years ago.  And the new OpenBSD pf code is light-years
> better than anything Linux has ever had.
>

pf has been out for over 3 (4?) years now. I think there was a port to Linux
underway.  Its predecessor, ipf had already been ported to Linux and is the
standard for the other BSDs and Solaris.

I found pf was much easier to dealy with then ipf and certainly iptables or
its predecessors.
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