I was cleaning out some old notes the other day and came across a pile of work relating to the development of some custom FreeBSD firewall solutions that Neil and I developed while at Itouch Labs, many years back in 2002.
The majority of the code is completely out dated, given these were based on the the then bleeding edge 4.3 branch. The only thing thats probably of value, is to sometime dust off the extensions we did to natd to provide an interactive console and the ability to reload rules without dumping its state table. Possibly post PhD.
I also found a link to a post made by Arri when he decommissioned them some four and a bit years later, with some impressive uptimes:
4.3-RELEASE-p28 FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE-p28 #0
8:56AM up 1175 days, 14:25, 1 user, load averages: 0.01, 0.00, 0.00
4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #3: Thu Aug 9 08:24:10 SAST 2001
8:55AM up 1353 days, 13:07, 1 user, load averages: 0.07, 0.03, 0.004.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #3: Thu Aug 9 08:24:10 SAST 2001
8:57AM up 1636 days, 12:16, 2 users, load averages: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00
BSD is great to work with! I see that the 2nd edition of Absolute FreeBSD is now finally available, and am eagerly awaiting for my copy to arrive.
