From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 21 06:56:25 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D5C616A41F for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 06:56:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dinesh@alphaque.com) Received: from ns2.alphaque.com (ns2.alphaque.com [202.75.47.153]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7DF3243D49 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 06:56:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dinesh@alphaque.com) Received: (qmail 66452 invoked by uid 0); 21 Nov 2005 06:56:20 -0000 Received: from lucifer.net-gw.com (HELO prophet.alphaque.com) (202.75.47.153) by lucifer.net-gw.com with SMTP; 21 Nov 2005 06:56:20 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by prophet.alphaque.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id jAL6u0Kl003424; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:56:01 +0800 (MYT) (envelope-from dinesh@alphaque.com) Message-ID: <43816F80.4040609@alphaque.com> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:56:00 +0800 From: Dinesh Nair User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20051026 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sasa Stupar References: <2709F1B8E7C94F02B8B8E920@[192.168.10.249]> <437C5925.3000102@alphaque.com> <9E8683EB7E1BDD7E33D2581D@[192.168.10.249]> In-Reply-To: <9E8683EB7E1BDD7E33D2581D@[192.168.10.249]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Q ML Subject: Re: Which firewall? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 06:56:25 -0000 On 11/17/05 21:21 Sasa Stupar said the following: > --On 17. november 2005 18:19 +0800 Dinesh Nair wrote: >> it's a freebsd 4.11 based system with a nice UI. > Hmmm, this looks interesting. and there's now an ALPHA release based on freebsd 6.0-RELEASE. one thing we've noticed though is a tremendous drop in network performance between 4.x and 6.0. on 4.x with the soekris net4801, we're getting 38Mbps throughput between both interfaces, but this drops to 20Mbps when 6.0 is used. this is a clear apples to apples comparison with the only thing changing being the base OS. -- Regards, /\_/\ "All dogs go to heaven." dinesh@alphaque.com (0 0) http://www.alphaque.com/ +==========================----oOO--(_)--OOo----==========================+ | for a in past present future; do | | for b in clients employers associates relatives neighbours pets; do | | echo "The opinions here in no way reflect the opinions of my $a $b." | | done; done | +=========================================================================+