BSD Now

By JT Pennington

211: It's HAMMER2 Time!

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Published September 13, 2017 7:00am

We explore whether a BSD can replicate Cisco router performance; RETGUARD, OpenBSDs new exploit mitigation technology, Dragonfly’s HAMMER2 filesystem implementation & more!This episode was brought to you by

HeadlinesCan a BSD system replicate the performance of a Cisco router?Short Answer: No, but it might be good enough for what you need

Traditionally routers were built with a tightly coupled data plane and control plane. Back in the 80s and 90s the data plane was running in software on commodity CPUs with proprietary software. As the needs a...

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