On 2016-01-27 13:23, David Sommerseth wrote:
> On 27/01/16 11:13, jdow wrote:
>>>
>> Fascinating. I made a bad "assumption" about network devices. It seems they
>> are created dynamically without any presence in /dev.
>
> IIRC, *BSD provides /dev nodes for network devices which the user-space can
> use for configuring it and such.  But it's many years since I played with
> FreeBSD, so my memory is scarce.
>
>
> --
> kind regards,
>
> David Sommerseth

That matches my memory of BSD from many years ago. I tried it after getting 
disgusted with RedHat, then Mandrake, then Ubuntu and Mint. I eventually found 
this distro during one of Centos' periods of dying and have lived here 
comfortably for some time now.

Nonetheless, as soon as I need something a little out of the ordinary for 
networking I disable network mangler and hand craft my solutions. Moving to 7 is 
going to be painful. I use a seldom used feature of IPTables to make a nice 
killer firewall that makes repeated attempts to login via SSH with passwords 
cost too much time to guess the password. Can't retry until 2 minutes have 
passed. It's fascinating to see the chains of attempts on SSH when the first one 
got far enough to reject the password and the chain of 200 that followed were 
simply dropped on the floor. I don't see that fun much anymore. Smaller logs are 
easier logs to watch. I moved ssh et al to uncommon pure random number port 
numbers - and left the other protection in place.

{^_^}   Dis broad likes multiple barriers for safety.