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Re: Best Linux (or BSD) hosted BGP?


From: Tom Beecher <beecher () beecher cc>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2023 09:55:35 -0400


or if future FreeBSD updates decide to "go their own
way"... yes.


 That could just as easily happen today. Every OS release has all kinds of
changes to defaults, and frequently don't get caught until they break
something. Even if today's FreeBSD defaults worked for this scenario, the
next release could change to a value that doesn't.

On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 12:46 AM Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> wrote:



On 5/10/23 03:40, Tom Beecher wrote:


Adjusting a single tunable is 'onerous'? Ok.

In the context of long term administration of the environment, years
after everybody has forgotten about the hack, or worse, folk leave and
others take over; or if future FreeBSD updates decide to "go their own
way"... yes.

Mark.



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