Episode Details

It's our one year anniversary episode, and we'll be talking with Reyk Floeter about the new OpenBSD webserver - why it was created and where it's going. After that, we'll show you the ins and outs of DragonFly's HAMMER FS. Answers to viewer-submitted questions and the latest headlines, on a very special BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

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Headlines

FreeBSD foundation's new IPSEC project

• The FreeBSD foundation, along with Netgate, is sponsoring some new work on the IPSEC code
• With bandwidth in the 10-40 gigabit per second range, the IPSEC stack needs to be brought up to modern standards in terms of encryption and performance
• This new work will add AES-CTR and AES-GCM modes to FreeBSD's implementation, borrowing some code from OpenBSD
• The updated stack will also support AES-NI for hardware-based encryption speed ups
• It's expected to be completed by the end of September, and will also be in pfSense 2.2 ***

NetBSD at Shimane Open Source Conference 2014

• The Japanese NetBSD users group held a NetBSD booth at the Open Source Conference 2014 in Shimane on August 23
• One of the developers has gathered a bunch of pictures from the event and wrote a fairly lengthy summary
• They had NetBSD running on all sorts of devices, from Raspberry Pis to Sun Java Stations
• Some visitors said that NetBSD had the most chaotic booth at the conference ***

pfSense 2.1.5 released

• A new version of the pfSense 2.1 branch is out
• Mostly a security-focused release, including three web UI fixes and the most recent OpenSSL fix (which FreeBSD has still not patched in -RELEASE after nearly a month)
• It also includes many other bug fixes, check the blog post for the full list ***

Systems, Science and FreeBSD

• Our friend George Neville-Neil gave a presentation at Microsoft Research
• It's mainly about using FreeBSD as a platform for research, inside and outside of universities
• The talk describes the OS and its features, ports, developer community, documentation, who uses BSD and much more ***

Interview - Reyk Floeter - reyk@openbsd.org / @reykfloeter

OpenBSD's HTTP daemon

Tutorial

A crash course on HAMMER FS

News Roundup

OpenBSD's rcctl tool usage

• OpenBSD recently got a new tool for managing /etc/rc.conf.local in -current
• Similar to FreeBSD's "sysrc" tool, it eliminates the need to manually edit rc.conf.local to enable or disable services
• This blog post - from a BSD Now viewer - shows the typical usage of the new tool