Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:10:17 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> Cc: Nyteckjobs@aol.com, Eric Melville <eric@FreeBSD.org>, chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Dennis the Menace Message-ID: <XFMail.011129131017.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20011129145003.V46769@elvis.mu.org>
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On 29-Nov-01 Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Eric Melville <eric@FreeBSD.org> [011129 13:59] wrote: >> > The concept that "netgraph hooks" are a "leg up" on say, ETs drivers that >> > have integrated bandwidth management and prioritization, WAN bridging >> > support, load balancing and a probably 25% performance advantage is a bit >> > entertaining. Unless you need to do some convoluted encapsulation netgraph >> > is, aside from being appallingly non-standard to anything else in the >> > market, >> > not much of an "advantage", and its a poster child for the trade off of >> > "flexibility" versus performance. >> > >> > Lets face it. If you were going to sit down and design an interface for >> > frame >> > relay, multi-protocol support, etc, you'd have to be smoking something >> > pretty >> > strong to come up with netgraph. But its free and there is source, so it >> > must be great! >> >> Dennis, if you are going to continue trolling FreeBSD mailing lists from >> your AOL account, you should really consider choosing a name that does not >> coincide with what we already know or can easily find out about you. > > Just for historical reasons I have a question... > > Is Dennis and Elder Troll or was he cast of the fire and brimstone > of the BSDi dissolution? I thought he was a Balrog rather than just a plain Troll. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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