Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 16:57:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> To: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" <rocky@ljusdal.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IPFW or IPFILTER? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0110121655220.19241-100000@rac4.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <3BC74F85.F480D241@ljusdal.net>
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> This is odd. > I have personally witnessed at least 10-12 Quake 3 players behind a single ip > handled by a IPFW/NATD machine, all on the same game server and with acceptable > ping considered the bandwidth available. > I dont recall the exact configuration of the IPFW/NATD machine, but Im quite > certian it was no higher than PII 233 with 64M, probably a lot weaker. > > Im not saying ipfw is better, or worse for that matter, then ipfilter, Im just > telling you what I know. > It's possible in the case of that machine that the pci chipset had something to do with it, I've heard bad things about the chipset in that machine that we were using at the time, and I've heard that part of the reason for our slow-downs could be due to some bug that was in the version of FreeBSD we were using at the time. Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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