On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 08:54:04AM +0200, Marcin Szczepaniak wrote:
> 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 ?

No, I don't think this exists yet, althouth it shouldn't need much code to do
it.

> 
> - 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 ?

there are proxy built-in IPF/IPNAT, but not for all the suffs linux has

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

Maybe in the package system - look at net/mrtg maybe ?

> 
> - 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 guess you should ask KAME peoples for this :)

> 
> - 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 ?

Yes, that's it. But you can tune the size of the buffer cache for your needs.

>   My friend tell me that in netBSD-current's kernel is avalaible
>   dynamicaly allocated disc-cache buffer. 

Yes.

> 
> - why there isn't killall ? :)

Maybe it's in pkgsrc

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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