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The author mentions using OpenBSD in production. Do any of you also use it in production? I have no doubt that it is used with good results, but I have enjoyed

The author mentions using OpenBSD in production. Do any of you also use it in production? I have no doubt that it is used with good results, but I have enjoyed it as a desktop OS and would love if more people could share their experience with it on a job.

meanjollies 11y ago
I work for an ISP. We use it (CARP and relayd) heavily for HTTP and DNS load balancing in an IPv6-laden environment. Performance is better than that we saw a few years ago under Linux.
- simoncion 11y ago
  CARP is sweet. There's an (as far as I can tell) IPv4-only implementation for Linux in ucarp. [0] I use it for failover on my home LAN. Question: Does OpenBSD CARP support "passwords" longer than 15 or 16 characters? [0] http://www.pureftpd.org/project/ucarp http://www.pureftpd.org/project/ucarp
- brobinson 11y ago
  Did you also evaluate FreeBSD? If you did, I'm curious what the pros and cons were that ultimately affected your decision.
  - meanjollies 11y ago
    I did not. I was more familiar with OpenBSD to begin with, and like its slant toward security. Although we do use FreeBSD for a few other servers used as NAS controllers. HAST + ZFS + CARP is great.
    - brobinson 11y ago
      Fair enough, thanks. I was curious since I've heard that FreeBSD generally has the best performance for network-heavy architectures.
protomyth 11y ago
I use it for servers except for home directories (FreeBSD with ZFS for that) and required applications (Red Hat, Windows, OS X, and an AS/400 (iSeries)). It works fine on bare metal and in VM on VSphere. Management is quite easy and the 6 months between major upgrades has been ok. Patching is build a set (I am all amd64) and deploy.
mcbridematt 11y ago
I use it as a firewall/router/network appliance OS. The neat thing is that most of the things you need for that role are in the base install, which is quite minimal.
- raphaelss 11y ago
  Given its reputation, I was surprised at how little I needed to do to have a suitable working environment.
  - deleted 11y ago
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  - e12e 11y ago
    Which reputation is that?
    - raphaelss 11y ago
      That it is more suitable for a firewall or router than desktop. To be clear, I didn't actually expect it to be bad at that. I was just surprised at how quick and easy it was to install it and to have a setup that I enjoy.
ghshephard 11y ago
We used OpenBSD with carp and pf as our external firewall for quite a while - worked great.

meanjollies 11y ago

I work for an ISP. We use it (CARP and relayd) heavily for HTTP and DNS load balancing in an IPv6-laden environment. Performance is better than that we saw a few years ago under Linux.

simoncion 11y ago
CARP is sweet. There's an (as far as I can tell) IPv4-only implementation for Linux in ucarp. [0] I use it for failover on my home LAN. Question: Does OpenBSD CARP support "passwords" longer than 15 or 16 characters? [0] http://www.pureftpd.org/project/ucarp http://www.pureftpd.org/project/ucarp
brobinson 11y ago
Did you also evaluate FreeBSD? If you did, I'm curious what the pros and cons were that ultimately affected your decision.
- meanjollies 11y ago
  I did not. I was more familiar with OpenBSD to begin with, and like its slant toward security. Although we do use FreeBSD for a few other servers used as NAS controllers. HAST + ZFS + CARP is great.
  - brobinson 11y ago
    Fair enough, thanks. I was curious since I've heard that FreeBSD generally has the best performance for network-heavy architectures.

protomyth 11y ago

I use it for servers except for home directories (FreeBSD with ZFS for that) and required applications (Red Hat, Windows, OS X, and an AS/400 (iSeries)). It works fine on bare metal and in VM on VSphere. Management is quite easy and the 6 months between major upgrades has been ok. Patching is build a set (I am all amd64) and deploy.

mcbridematt 11y ago

I use it as a firewall/router/network appliance OS. The neat thing is that most of the things you need for that role are in the base install, which is quite minimal.

raphaelss 11y ago
Given its reputation, I was surprised at how little I needed to do to have a suitable working environment.
- deleted 11y ago
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- e12e 11y ago
  Which reputation is that?
  - raphaelss 11y ago
    That it is more suitable for a firewall or router than desktop. To be clear, I didn't actually expect it to be bad at that. I was just surprised at how quick and easy it was to install it and to have a setup that I enjoy.

ghshephard 11y ago

We used OpenBSD with carp and pf as our external firewall for quite a while - worked great.