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From: briggs@puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us (Allen Briggs)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: DEBATE:  BSD vs. Linux
Date: 1 Sep 1995 23:45:39 GMT
Organization: Home, Blacksburg, Virginia
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In article <DE8wxz.H4C@midway.uchicago.edu>,
Steve Farrell <spfarrel@midway.uchicago.edu> wrote:
>Recently I posted a question in this newsgroup.  I asked whether NetBSD
>had kernel support to do ip tunneling and masquerading.

What are these?  I skipped your question because I'm not familiar with
those terms.  NetBSD on an SE/30 will run PPP.  I don't know about "IP
tunneling" or "masquerading."  If Linux does it, does it do it with a
user-level program?  If so, it should be relatively easy to port.

>in Linux newsgroup someone would have answered my question (I have had
>MANY such questions answered the same day I post)

There is a lot more traffic on the Linux newsgroups than there is here.
There are a lot more people using Linux than there are using NetBSD.
These are not unrelated.  Have you tried the NetBSD mailing lists,
though?  netbsd-help@netbsd.org is going to be read by NetBSD developers
a lot more often than _any_ Usenet group.

-allen

-- 
Allen Briggs - end killing - allen.briggs@bev.net ** MacBSD == NetBSD/mac68k **
   Where does all my time go?  <a href="http://www.netbsd.org/">Guess.</a>