tech notes

OpenBSD 4.3 has just been released. I’ve just tested installing it on a net 5501. The installation procedure is exactly the same as  for OpenBSD 4.2 described here. The only exception is that I couldn’t find pxeboot on the install43.iso file downloaded from ftp.openbsd.org (I’ll check if it’s on the original CDs when they arrive). It’s not a problem as one from a previous release works fine.

Currently I can’t really find any improvements in 4.3 that would be especially useful on net 5501 as it was the case with 4.2 and net 4501 (performance improvements to pf and many updates to sis(4)). However one nice thing is a new snmp daemon in the base system. This could we quite useful when tracking usage statistics on routers with, for example network weathermap