OpenBSD Network Shell 20050628 review

NSH is intended to handle configuration for interfaces, bridging, routing, packet filtering, NAT, and ISAKMP

License: BSD License File size: 370K Developer: Chris Cappuccio

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NSH is intended to handle configuration for interfaces, bridging, routing, packet filtering, NAT, and ISAKMP. It presents the user with a vaguely cisco-like interface.

It also gives the user access to system information and diagnostics. NSH replaces the userland commands which handle these functions, and talks directly to the OpenBSD kernel (with exceptions for pfctl, isakmpd, and dhcpd).

NSH is completely free, it only incorporates code with BSD-style licenses.

The current version fixes bugs from the last release and brings NSH up to speed for OpenBSD 3.7 and 3.7-current.

For the next major release, I'm planning on some IPsec, OSPF, BGP, and DHCP functionality, and possibly ping and other functions. (Also, a rework of the CLI code might happen) The CLI is functional for information/diagnostics, and configuration of pf/nat/altq, interfaces, bridging, and routing.