53: It's HAMMER Time

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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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

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