On 2002-12-17 11:27, Philip Christian <philipchristian2003@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>  --- Sam Carleton <sam@linux-info.net> wrote: > Folks,
> > I thought I might take a poll.  Why do you use NetBSD?  I would
> > like to be the first to take the poll:
> >
> > I am using it primarly as a firewall.  I like how secure it is,
> > how the base install is very bare so that I can add only what I
> > want on the machine.
>
> It is the only free OS that I can make an OSI End
> System out of.  I basically want to experiment with
> the OSI stack.
>
> I tried FreeBSD (simply because I thought that it
> might work better with my Xircom ethernet card), and
> then found out that they had removed the OSI stack.

IIRC, this was done because nobody was willing to support it anymore.
I'm sure that you can work and generate patches using the older
version of the source that included the OSI stack though.  One of the
great advantages of all BSDs is that you're free to copy any version
of the source tree as a base and start work based on that.  You are
not obliged to work with freebsd-current or netbsd-current.  I'm also
almost 100% sure that given a relatively stable code base upon which
OSI support can be worked on and relatively good support for it, the
relevant parts could be revived in the FreeBSD tree too :-)