Another successful OpenBSD setup

I’ve been buying these little boxes from AliExpress for years to use as firewalls and routers. My oldest one is almost 9 years old now! OpenBSD installs just fine. Just a BIOS tweak to always boot up after power is restored.

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  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    AP WiFi Access Point
    DNS Domain Name Service/System
    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    SATA Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage
    SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
    TLS Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL

    5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 9 acronyms.

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  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I personally never understood the desire for BSD. BSD was good back in the day but we now have Linux which is better supported and protected under the GPL.

    • Violet_McQuasional@feddit.ukEnglish
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      9 months ago

      PfSense and OPNsense are both killer router “out of the box” distros built on BSD. I say this as a Linux user, with little interest in running BSD for my applications, but… Respect to BSD. ✊

      • youmaynotknow@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        9 months ago

        I couldn’t agree more. I’ve been running PFsense for about 5 years, great little toy, not 1 single issue. BSD has been paramount in my life for my firewall needs. And I only run Linux on everything else (desktops and servers), but there is not a single FOSS firewall distro out there that can match, much less surpass, a BSD based firewall.

  • madcaesar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Sorry for my ignorance I tried googling but what is this exactly? A server for files or? A media server?

    • rhys the great@mastodon.rhys.wtf
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      9 months ago

      @madcaesar @otl It’s a small server running OpenBSD, configured to operate as a router and/or firewall.

      Linux and the *BSDs can operate as very good routers and firewalls, usually being much more configurable and enabling you to do more complex than off-the-shelf consumer-level hardware routers. Using them on a small form factor computer with a cheap switch in front of them can give you a better performing and nicer to use alternative.