Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 05:48:14 -0800 (PST) From: Danial Thom <danial_thom@yahoo.com> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, ann kok <annkok2001@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: freebsd router Message-ID: <20060111134814.19609.qmail@web33307.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060111133229.GF98918@over-yonder.net>
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--- "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 05:16:21AM -0800 I > heard the voice of > Danial Thom, and lo! it spake thus: > > > > Stop wasting your time and stay with FreeBSD > 4.11. Its the fastest > > router platform Man has ever created, and its > likely to say that > > way. > > This may be the wildest exaggeration I've read > all year (of course, > the year is yet quite young). I'd be interested in hearing your reasoning for thinking so. There is little argument that FreeBSD 4.x is perhaps the fastest Uniprocessor O/S ever created for networking. SMP will likely never be able to match it. It certainly can't now, in the current state of development. Routing is fastest when implemented as a single process task. Once you start chopping up (threading) the path you slow it down. While it could be possible to have a faster routing subsystem on a custom-designed MP O/S, its not practical to build a general purpose O/S in such a way. So freebsd 4.x it is. Freebsd 4.x can route 25% more traffic than its 5.x counterpart on the same hardware. 5.x SMP is actually worse (as it drops more packets at high traffic levels, and FreeBSD 4.x never drops packets until its overrun). DT __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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