From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Sep 21 9:59:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from web1302.mail.yahoo.com (web1302.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.152]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8A9E214DFB for ; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 09:59:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dipierro5@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <19990921171134.25707.rocketmail@web1302.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [216.66.25.75] by web1302.mail.yahoo.com; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 10:11:34 PDT Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 10:11:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Anthony DiPierro Subject: looking for ammo To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I'm looking for some ammo to convince a client of mine to use freebsd vs. solaris for a server environment. Technically, we're looking at high numbers of simultaneous TCP connections in a robust scalable environment. I already have cdrom.com, hotmail.com, and yahoo.com as a list of others in a high scale environment using freebsd. cdrom.com is more in the space I'm developing for (long term FTP/TCP connections, as opposed to short term HTTP/TCP connections), but this would be a much higher number of connections (more like 500,000 vs 5,000, not necessarily on one box of course), at a much lower bandwidth. If anyone can give me an example of a freebsd box supporting something like that (or knows what aol or msns instant messenger servers are running), that would be perfect information. I also have wonderful free support (through the freebsd- mailing lists), access to source code, free os software, cheap os hardware on the freebsd side. I was looking for some more technical documentation, especially something showing scalabilty in the TCP stack. Of course, if this just isn't the case, I hope someone is willing to show that too. If comparison numbers aren't available, any freebsd specific numbers would be helpful too. I'll be looking for a solaris-advocacy mailing list, but something tells me I'm better off just calling their sales for this. TIA, K __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message