alt Hacker NewsIsnt OpenBSD mainly used for security testing or do I have it wrong? Would be surprised if it was used in production datacenter networking hardware at all. Seems like most people would use one of the proprietary implementations (which likely would include specific written drivers for that hardware) or something like FreeBSD
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lstodd • today at 6:06 PM
You don't need 4gbps pf queues or even fiber on every single machine in a datacenter. So be surprised, it is used widely for its simplicity and reliability not to mention security compared to those proprietary implementations you speak of, may they rot in hell.
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.