• towerful@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Why?
    I've tried to Google this, but it's such a general statement I can't find anything about it.
    Is it more mature in that regard? Sane/sensible/safe defaults for networking? More tools as part of the distribution for networking?
    Did FreeBSD (or it's predecessor/upstream/whatever) define the standards, so the implementation is more correct?

    Or is it just that so many firewall applications run on top of FreeBSD (or a BSD flavour) eg opnSense, pfSense, openWRT (is openWRT actually BSD, idk)?
    So, kinda a historical/momentum thing. With the benefits of wide spread specific use

    • LinuxSBC@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      OpenBSD is focused on being incredibly secure, and they generally succeed. Firewalls need good security.