> I'm running NetBSD 1.4.1 on my Sparc IPX and it has been incredibly
> stable.  I am now finding that I need to support some of the secure
> transfer/connection methods such as sftp[d] and perhaps ssh[d].  Will
> these daemons and apps run on my older kernel/system or do I need to
> go through a painful upgrade process?

As someone who is still running NetBSD almost that old (I'm at 1.4T,
frozen in 2000-02)....

The stock NetBSD ones, I don't know - my guess would be that you'd have
a moderately uncomfortable porting effort in your hands.

But I wouldn't expect it to be that much work to get one of the free
ssh implementations to work on your machine.  I'm somewhat biased in
this regard (I have an ssh implementation I wrote), but there are at
least two that I am at arm's-length from (openssh and ssh.com).

I'd suggest my own, but you specifically mention sftp, and that's one
piece I don't yet have implemented - I've been waiting for the sftp
drafts to settle down, and even now they look more like a remote
filesystem access protocol than a file transfer protocol.  I suspect
all implementations will be subsets, leading to interoperability
problems, but the sense of the WG seems to be that this is what it
shall be.

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