From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 24 14:34:11 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 656A516A41F for ; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 14:34:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jbronson@wixb.com) Received: from shadow.sixcompanies.com (shadow.sixcompanies.com [67.53.234.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BE4943D7D for ; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 14:34:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jbronson@wixb.com) Message-Id: <6.2.5.6.2.20051124083015.00c080f8@sixcompanies.com> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 08:33:44 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: JD Bronson Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: using freebsd for a router X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 14:34:11 -0000 I dont want to start a flame/war here...but was *just* wondering... I currently use OpenBSD-3.8 for my router (T-1 with many statics) and then use FreeBSD-6.0 for my servers (web/mail/DNS...) I am debating on just standardizing to all FreeBSD. It seems the security is quite the same - but I dont know about performance pros/cons. It seems that the 'pf' that comes with FreeBSD 6.0 is equal to that within OBSD 3.8. So all things considered - is there any advantage to using FreeBSD for a router or just keeping things the way they are....? Thanks for any comments or flames (I suppose). -JD