61: IPSECond Wind

This week on the show, we sat down with John-Mark Gurney to talk about modernizing FreeBSD's IPSEC stack. We'll learn what he's adding, what needed to be fixed and how we'll benefit from the changes. As always, answers to your emails and all of this week's news, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

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BSD panel at Phoenix LUG

The Phoenix, Arizona Linux users group had a special panel so they could learn a bit more about BSD
It had one FreeBSD user and one OpenBSD user, and they answered questions from the organizer and the people in the audience
They covered a variety of topics, including filesystems, firewalls, different development models, licenses and philosophy
It was a good "real world" example of things potential switchers are curious to know about
They closed by concluding that more diversity is always better, and even if you've got a lot of Linux boxes, putting a few BSD ones in the mix is a good idea ***

Book of PF signed copy auction

Peter Hansteen (who we've had on the show) is auctioning off the first signed copy of the new Book of PF
All the profits from the sale will go to the OpenBSD Foundation
The updated edition of the book includes all the latest pf syntax changes, but also provides examples for FreeBSD and NetBSD's versions (which still use ALTQ, among other differences)
If you're interested in firewalls, security or even just advanced networking, this book is a great one to have on your shelf - and the money will also go to a good cause
Michael Lucas has challenged Peter to raise more for the foundation than his last book selling - let's see who wins
Pause the episode, go bid on it and then come back! ***

FreeBSD Foundation goes to EuroBSDCon

Some people from the FreeBSD Foundation went to EuroBSDCon this year, and come back with a nice trip report
They also sponsored four other developers to go
The foundation was there "to find out what people are working on, what kind of help they could use from the Foundation, feedback on what we can be doing to support the FreeBSD Project and community, and what features/functions people want supported in FreeBSD"
They also have a second report from Kamil Czekirda
A total of $2000 was raised at the conference ***

OpenBSD 5.6 released

Note: we're doing this story a couple days early - it's actually being released on November 1st (this Saturday), but we have next week off and didn't want to let this one slip through the cracks - it may be out by the time you're watching this
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