From: Adam Flinton 

Mike '/m' wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 18:50:20 -0500, "Geo"
 wrote:
>
>
>>"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
>>news:bdelv0pgln9dq4ch6qb27dtdvhmof94q15{at}4ax.com...
>>
>>
>>>You asked Geo., but I'll chime in that I have started a move toward Linux
>>
>>and
>>
>>>OS-X.
>>
>>Linux has a lot of problems with distributions ending abruptly because the
>>person behind that particular distribution decided to move on (or died).
>>
>>I look at Knoppix which I really like but if Klaus decided tomorrow that he
>>had enough, I'd be in exactly the same position I am with NT4 boxes. (maybe
>>a little better because I'd have the source but you get the idea)
>
>
> Some of the more fringe distributions have that problem, but I don't use
those
> distributions.  There are enough mainstream distributions that will be around
> for a while that I'm not oncerned.  Besides, I have found it fairly easy to
> move apps from Linux to FreeBSD to OpenBSD.  The only difficulty has been
> getting Postifx to run on WIndows.
>
>  /m
>
Why not netBSD? I like the bsd nat & firewalling. Esp given that IPSec
& linux don't quite agree yet (& I have problems with putting it
into the kernel).

Use Native IPSec, on linux, put in a braindead config & voila instant goodbye.

Also I like to be able to monitor nat traffic...

Adam

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