OpenBSD Books On The Way

*no comment* writes "Well with all the advancements in PF and secure code wouldn't it be nice if someone would write a book on OpenBSD??? Oh wait, someone is. A guy named Jacek Artymiak is doing just that. The OpenBSD Gazetteer is scheduled for release shortly after the release of what may be the best release ever of OpenBSD (IMHO). Vastly improved PF, ALTQ, and BIND 9 is now default, not to mention procop stack protection. Out of the box it's ready to go as a firewalling packet-filtering bandwidth-throttling machine. A thread had started to pick up over at deadly.org."

Mirror

[Anonymous Coward]

The mirror is here [republika.pl].

Cool!

[moonboy]

This is fantastic news! I've been an avid fan of OpenBSD for quite sometime now and this type of concise reference guide has been needed for sometime now. Granted the OpenBSD documentation available on the Internet is extremely well done, but I think it'll be great to have it consolidated in book form especially when Jacek will update the book with each full version upgrade of OpenBSD.

Re:Cool!

[nocomment]

We get it you're an avid [slashdot.org] fan of OpenBSD. ;-)

firewalling packet-filtering bandwidth-throttling

[Anonymous Coward]

to that, add kick ass vpn. obsd's ipsec implementation is very clean.

i'm hoping to send in some diff's in a few days that adds bsdauth support to isakmpd. that way, we won't have any need for the $2k/year fw-1 license.

Re:firewalling packet-filtering bandwidth-throttli

[jo42]

Can OpenBSD also load balance an Internet connection? Say you get two ADSL lines and want to make it look like one bigger pipe?

*BSD solutions only please. I do NOT want a Linux solution thank you very much.

Re:Tsarkon Reports: Easy OpenBSD book

[Cold Drink]

Maybe if other projects cared as much about thier code as the OpenBSD guys do, the OpenBSD wouldn't be necessary.

Absolute OpenBSD

[Eric Wayte]

And this book [blackhelicopters.org] will be out Summer 2003.

Re:Absolute OpenBSD

[Eric Wayte]

I know it's bad form to reply to your own post, but the link should be book [blackhelicopters.org]

Re:Absolute OpenBSD

[PyTHON71]

The above link was slashdotted, so here's the Amazon listing [amazon.com].

Daniel.

We are very excited about Absolute OpenBSD

[porkrind]

Michael Lucas is a fantastic author, and we hope to have published this book by at least June, 2003.

We hope you like it.

-John Mark
Marketing Manager
No Starch Press

Bet the publisher isn't O'Reilly...

[afabbro]

Back in the 2.5ish days, I submitted a detailed proposal to O'Reilly to write an OpenBSD book. Their answer was "not interested, no market". I knew they were wrong...

Re:Please define acronyms

[raddan]

Yes, funny joke.

Okay, in case you're not joking: PF = packet filter

Packet Filter [benzedrine.cx], the best way to do whatever you want with your packets.

Should be good - check out Jacek's writing...

[jackbox]

I can't wait! I've been following a series of articles that he wrote for O'Reilly OnLamp.com. (Like this one [onlamp.com]) Very well written, and they address practical stuff.

Yeah

[mindstrm]

But it still can't do policy routing.