Subject: some basic questions from Linux user
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Marcin Szczepaniak <szczepan@szczepan.from.pl>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 04/04/2001 08:54:04
i'm new in NetBSD but i have experience in Linux.
So i want to compare these two Unix'es, ask about 
few tools, and etc. 
I have already read archive of this maillist, but
doesn't find such answers. 
I'll be gratefull if you redirect me to some docs,
manuals or URL's where i can read more. thanks !

so, my questions are:

- in Linux there is OpenWall patch, to hide processes
  of other users. How is with it on NetBSD?
  something like sysctl -w kern.secrelevel ?

- Linux has IP-masquerading. BSD has IP-NAT.
  linux has special modules, like ipmasq-irc, ipmasq-realaudio, etc..
  how is on NetBSD with running such services as RealAudio, IRC, FTP, 
  behind my firewall ?

- on my router i'm using tools for monitoring network traffic,
  such as iptraf. Is avalaible any equivalent for NetBSD ?

- i have read about KAME project. There is written, that it runs 
  on NetBSD 1.5 and it can be used for tuning network traffic
  on routers. What's the name of tool used to settig this up,
  which manual should i read ?

- i have read, that NetBSD for disk operations uses static alocated
  buffer in RAM. For exmple i have 128 MB of RAM, my applications
  uses 40 MB, i have allocated for disk-cache 10 MBytes. It means
  that 70 MBytes of memory will be wasted ?
  My friend tell me that in netBSD-current's kernel is avalaible
  dynamicaly allocated disc-cache buffer. 

- why there isn't killall ? :)


thanks for help
Szczepan