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It's widely used as a router, that's one of its primary uses. But not sure to what scale, likely at small orgs not at major ISPs. But, OpenBSD is a project by
by SoftTalker 8mo ago
It's widely used as a router, that's one of its primary uses. But not sure to what scale, likely at small orgs not at major ISPs.
But, OpenBSD is a project by and for its developers. They use it and develop it to do what they want; they don't really care what anyone else does or doesn't do with it.
- Melatonic 8mo agoDo people actually use OpenBSD over FreeBSD for use as a router ?
- zie 8mo agoYes, lots of large providers really want defense in depth at the router/firewall/important services level. They want separate OS's in case a giant CVE or bug comes out for platform X but isn't on platform Y. So multi-platform core services is a key component of systems that need to stay up and alive long-term. Things like Routers, Firewalls, DNS, BGP, etc. Use different software and hardware stacks. We use FreeBSD and Debian @ work, though we are playing around with Nix and Guix now to maybe replace the Debian someday.