From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 25 21:19:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA05992 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 21:19:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obie.softweyr.ml.org ([199.104.124.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA05983 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 21:19:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.ml.org (8.7.5/8.6.12) id WAA15937; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 22:27:47 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 22:27:47 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199709260427.WAA15937@obie.softweyr.ml.org> From: Wes Peters To: "Christian" CC: chat@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD specialties In-Reply-To: <2178D50577@colstate.edu> References: <2178D50577@colstate.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk PLAZAS_CHRISTIAN@colstate.edu writes: > Anyways, one of my questions is, Are there things/features/capabilities in > FreeBSD that other Operating Systems do not have? I know of one right off the bat: TTCP, or "TCP for Transactions." This is discussed at length in W. Richard Stevens book "TCP/IP Illustrated, vol. 3," where he used FreeBSD for the examples. TTCP is a connection oriented service like TCP, but with an accelerated open sequence that would be ideal for services like HTTP. With FreeBSD and some diligence, it would be possible to experiment with TTCP-based HTTP servers and clients and determine exactly the benefit for the WWW. Another plus: there are at least two implementations of IPv6, the next generation TCP/IP protocol, avaliable for FreeBSD. I've seen the version from ftp.inria.fr mentioned here a number of times. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com