From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 6 22:51:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dsinw.com (dsinw.com [207.149.40.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4662814CF3 for ; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 22:51:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@dsinw.com) Received: (from hamellr@localhost) by dsinw.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) id WAA05148; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 22:49:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 22:49:17 -0700 (PDT) From: rick hamell To: Laurence Berland Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux Vs FreeBSD networking Code In-Reply-To: <370AEEFC.8E7F4CD1@confusion.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > ** (and the benchmarks prove it, in fact, Linux has the > fastest network performance of any general purpose OS). > > Anyone want to confirm or deny what this person is saying? I've heard > both sides argued, but not by anyone who is going beyond uninformed or > at least semi-uninformed bickering. Anyone have a more informed > perspective on the issue? Well, all I know is that when I worked for an ISP we moved our main (only) server from Linux to FreeBSD. We had two customers who both called up and were happy with the speed increase they were seeing. Granted... it could have been from something else.. but still... Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message