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From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
To: Danial Thom <danial_thom@yahoo.com>
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On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 05:48:14AM -0800 I heard the voice of
Danial Thom, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> I'd be interested in hearing your reasoning for thinking so.

I can walk over to Cisco and buy a router that will push well over a
billion packets per second.  FreeBSD 4.x can't even come within 3
orders of magnitude of that.


> Routing is fastest when implemented as a single process task.

Not even remotely true.  And routing is CERTAINLY not fastest when
implemented on a CPU.


> 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.

s/could be/absolutely is/
Which pretty well eliminates the statement "FreeBSD foo is the fastest
router platform Man has ever created" right there.  The fastest router
platform is and will always be a platform designed to be a router.


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