From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Nov 29 13:10:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail11.speakeasy.net (mail11.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C464F37B417 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:10:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 6224 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2001 21:11:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail11.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 29 Nov 2001 21:11:11 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20011129145003.V46769@elvis.mu.org> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:10:17 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Alfred Perlstein Subject: Dennis the Menace Cc: Nyteckjobs@aol.com, Eric Melville , chat@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 29-Nov-01 Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Eric Melville [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 <>< 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