[KLUG Members] OpenBSD 2.9 now available on CD from KLUG.

[Jamie McCarthy]

This is a valuable service...I've been using OpenBSD 2.8 for my
Charter cable firewall for the last few months and it really is
exactly what I'd want it to be:  simple, straightforward, does what
it's supposed to and rock-solid.

I was very pleased to find that, during the installation process, it
automatically determined that I had two ethernet cards and decided
it was going to set itself up as a router from one to the other.
That default behavior happens to be exactly what I wanted it to do!
I just had to figure out which card it thought was which, plugged
in the cables, and I had a nice router.

Less obvious things included setting up my NAT configuration.
I went without FTP access from inside my home network for a month
before I figured out that this line:

    map dc1 192.168.0.0/24 -> 0/32 proxy port ftp ftp/tcp

goes BEFORE this line:

    map dc1 192.168.0.0/24 -> dc1/32 portmap tcp/udp 10000:20000

which was not at all obvious from the documentation.

It was fairly easy figuring out how to check out the codebase with
CVS, compile it all, and then to install and compile patches.
Doing the same for the kernel recompile was a little trickier but
still not that hard.  It's nice to have a system where I have the
source code to absolutely _everything_ in /usr/src.  Want to see
how /sbin/fsck works?  Go check the code in /usr/src/sbin/fsck!
That's a good feeling.
--
 Jamie McCarthy
 jamie@mccarthy.vg