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At 02:12 PM 11/25/2006, Nick Pavlica wrote:
>>I might give OpenBSD a quick try as a reference.
>
>Mike,
>  Have you done any testing on Solaris 10, or OpenSolaris?  I
>understand that it has a very robust IP stack.  It would be
>interesting to see how the three stack up against each other (FBSD,
>LINUS, SunOS).

I installed OpenSolaris elsewhere this week.  Yeah, might be 
interesting to try out. I will give it a test on Monday if the NICs 
are supported.  ipfilter seems to be the firewall software.

         ---Mike