From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 29 16:20:56 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29FC316A4D3 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:20:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gateway.unixusers.co.uk (unixusers.co.uk [82.133.118.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B563043D64 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:20:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from david.jenkins@gmail.com) Received: by gateway.unixusers.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 80) id 9FD915C54; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:21:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from 194.168.3.18 (SquirrelMail authenticated user david); by unixusers.co.uk with HTTP; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:21:05 -0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <45624.194.168.3.18.1101745265.squirrel@194.168.3.18> In-Reply-To: <20041129100506.29d2da5f.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <41AB3354.4010302@esiee.fr> <20041129093917.222ccad8.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <200411291844.36416.ostap@radiant.ru> <20041129100506.29d2da5f.wmoran@potentialtech.com> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:21:05 -0000 (GMT) From: "David Jenkins" To: "Bill Moran" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal cc: ostap@radiant.ru cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: simple router ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: david.jenkins@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:20:56 -0000 On Mon, 29 November, 2004 15:05, Bill Moran said: > Sergey Evteeff wrote: >> Hi. >> >> > > What would be the best version of FreeBSD to perform such >> operation >> > > 4.10 or 5.3 ? >> > 5.3. >> >> Why? > > The only thing wrong with 5.3 is the gvinum doesn't work yet. It > doesn't > seem like you'll be using gvinum. > > If you install 4.10, you'll want to upgrade at some point in the > future > when 4.X isn't supported any more. > > Unless you know factually that you won't be keeping this server around > very long (i.e., less than a year). If that's the case, use 4.10 as > it's a more tested codebase. I still think that's wrong, as servers > always seem to stay around longer than you plan. There have been quite a lot of threads in the past month regarding the network performance of 5.3 being inferior to 4.10. You might also want to bear in mind that with the 5 series you have the benefit of OpenBSD's pf firewall. Although more information on 4.x and pf is available at the following link. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-pf/2004-September/000300.html Personally, if it was me, I'd go with 5.x rather than 4.x, but if you are going to be pushing a lot of data then perhaps search the archives for the last month or two regarding network performance. Cheers, David