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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeeds.sol.net!worldnet.att.net!howland.erols.net!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.utell.co.uk!usenet From: brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: NetBSD vs FreeBSD, kernel networking code Date: 26 Mar 1997 16:43:45 GMT Organization: Awfulhak Ltd. Lines: 19 Message-ID: <5hbjo1$g0@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> References: <5h9a1g$ela@qnx.com> Reply-To: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk, brian@utell.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: shift.utell.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5694 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37767 In article <5h9a1g$ela@qnx.com>, doug@qnx.com (Doug Santry) writes: > I know that both NetBSD and FreeBSD are based on the Lite/1 tape. But > both camps have been fixing bugs in the code. So while both have > a common ancestor, I assume they have diverged a little by now. What > are some of the differences between the two? I am interested in new > features and bug fixes. For instance, FreeBSD has T/TCP support. Does > NetBSD? Are there resource limits that have been fixed in one and not > the other? Does one handle the SYN_RCVD attack better than the other? > > No detail is too trivial. I'm afraid I don't know much about NetBSD, but some of the FreeBSD developers are in the process of merging the Lite/2 tape :) -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <brian@freebsd.org> <http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !