Contributed by jose on from the yep,-its-a-product dept.
Just found this on cisco's site.
From cisco site:
"The operating system is ArbOS, Cisco's own hardened version of OpenBSD, in which the TCP stack is rewritten and the user spaces removed. Telnet is disabled in the default configuration"
"Each component operates on top of ArbOS, a hardened, highly secure system based on the industry-standard OpenBSD."
Network Computing Information "
A point of clarification to the submitter, it's actually from Arbor Networks , not Cisco, but yep, it's based on OpenBSD.
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By jose () on http://monkey.org/~jose/
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By Dan () on
You can totally discount my reply though because I don't work for Arbor and I don't have any experience with ArbOS.
By ViPER () viper@dmrt.net on http://www.dmrt.net
(4x1gb fiber nics doing traffic shapping)
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I don't care about what the license allows you to do with the code. Replacing the tcp/ip stack takes a lot of gall.
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By thomas () no@spam.please on mailto:no@spam.please
But like I said, this is a one time personal experinece account, not a completely static view, and I leave a lot of room open to operator error/bad configuration. But I know for me personally, keeping OpenBSD around as a light load server, a honey-pot, a good IDS machine, or a ethernet bridge is a great idea, but I wouldn't dare put it on as router/high load server, it just can't seem to handle it.
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By Chris Cappuccio () chris@nmedia.net on mailto:chris@nmedia.net
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By thomas () no@spam.please on mailto:no@spam.please
Sorry for the late reply and I hope you'll still come back and check this out. When I last used OpenBSD it was for a router/firewall machine on a corporate network, it was running OpenBSD 3.2. All I was doing with it was running out a pretty good PF firewall and a SMTP relay. The main thing that I saw was if I didn't place very much traffic on it, I would get good KBps out of it (~800 - 900), but when a lot of load started to run through it (lots of e-mails at once, or lots of users natting out) the traffic would drop vastly (~150 - 200).
Now of course, maybe I did something wrong, who knows? I replaced it with FreeBSD and it handled it just fine and sustained rates over duration.
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I don't care about what the license allows you to do with the code. Replacing the tcp/ip stack takes a lot of gall.
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By naxalite () eric@naxalite.ath.cx on mailto:eric@naxalite.ath.cx