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Is OpenBSD used in industry, in critical systems, etc.? If so, what are some examples of its use? Truly interested to know.
by zvmaz 3y ago
Is OpenBSD used in industry, in critical systems, etc.? If so, what are some examples of its use? Truly interested to know.
- mrweasel 3y agom:tier (https://www.mtier.org/refs/ https://www.mtier.org/refs/) claims to have customers in the oil and gas industry.
- tranxen 3y agoThere was this interesting talk [1] about how this ISP uses OpenBSD as BGP control plane. I used to heard that OpenBSD was often used as Internet facing middlebox (like firewalls/proxy/network load balancer) because of how good pf and relayd are. But it would surprise me if it would still be the case nowadays, OpenBSD seems to perform poorly [2] in terms of network throughput compared to the competition (VyOS/VPP). And I don't think this 7.5 upgrade helped a lot regarding this topic. [1]: https://gregsowell.com/?p=7069 https://gregsowell.com/?p=7069 [2]: https://ipng.ch/s/articles/2021/07/19/pcengines-apu6.html https://ipng.ch/s/articles/2021/07/19/pcengines-apu6.html
- binkHN 3y ago> https://ipng.ch/s/articles/2021/07/19/pcengines-apu6.html https://ipng.ch/s/articles/2021/07/19/pcengines-apu6.html Nice little write-up. I found it interesting that OpenBSD outperformed Linux, but DPDK-based systems blew the roof off.
- tranxen 3y agoHopefully one day DPDK will be ported to OpenBSD. Altough I think OpenBSD also lack proper network card documentation.