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Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 15:11:33 +0100
From: Marcin Jessa <lists@yazzy.org>
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On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 05:54:08 -0800 (PST)
Danial Thom <danial_thom@yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> --- Marcin Jessa <lists@yazzy.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 05:16:21 -0800 (PST)
> > Danial Thom <danial_thom@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > --- ann kok <annkok2001@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hi all
> > > > 
> > > > I think this group might be correct to ask
> > the
> > > > performance of freebsd as router 
> > > > 
> > > > I have run freebsd 4.11 as router for 3
> > years.
> > > > I like
> > > > freebsd because it is more stable and its
> > > > security.
> > > > Recently, the bandwidth grows to stop about
> > > > 383M in
> > > > mrtg graph and have packet loss when it
> > reaches
> > > > to
> > > > 370M
> > > > 
> > > > I am trying to use freebsd 6.0. Could you
> > help
> > > > how to
> > > > tune the freebsd to have high network
> > > > throughput? I
> > > > test the throughput by ipref software. the
> > max
> > > > is
> > > > about 390M
> > > > 
> > > > I configure polling, loader.conf and use
> > the 
> > > > Intel(R)
> > > > Pentium 3.0 Hz, intel Giga em0, sata drive
> > with
> > > > 2G
> > > > memory
> > > > 
> > > > Thank you for your help
> > > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> 
> It sounds like 
> 
> 1) you've never done any testing
> 2) you don't understand how things work
> 
> Check my other post in this thread for details.
> 
> Whats the point of "trolling" that freebsd 4 is
> better at routing than 5? Do you think I own
> stock in freebsd 4? Linux 2.6 is slower than
> linux 2.4 at routing. Its the simple truth.
> Easily 
> determined.

Point proven, you are trolling. 
There is an article I would like you to read before going any further:
http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability/


Marcin.