Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 14:50:03 -0600 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: Eric Melville <eric@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Nyteckjobs@aol.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, tedm@toybox.placo.com Subject: Re: (no subject) Message-ID: <20011129145003.V46769@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <20011129115909.A75251@FreeBSD.org>; from eric@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 11:59:09AM -0800 References: <14e.4d05ff7.29371325@aol.com> <20011129115909.A75251@FreeBSD.org>
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* Eric Melville <eric@FreeBSD.org> [011129 13:59] wrote:
> > The concept that "netgraph hooks" are a "leg up" on say, ETs drivers that
> > have integrated bandwidth management and prioritization, WAN bridging
> > support, load balancing and a probably 25% performance advantage is a bit
> > entertaining. Unless you need to do some convoluted encapsulation netgraph
> > is, aside from being appallingly non-standard to anything else in the market,
> > not much of an "advantage", and its a poster child for the trade off of
> > "flexibility" versus performance.
> >
> > Lets face it. If you were going to sit down and design an interface for frame
> > relay, multi-protocol support, etc, you'd have to be smoking something pretty
> > strong to come up with netgraph. But its free and there is source, so it
> > must be great!
>
> Dennis, if you are going to continue trolling FreeBSD mailing lists from
> your AOL account, you should really consider choosing a name that does not
> coincide with what we already know or can easily find out about you.
Just for historical reasons I have a question...
Is Dennis and Elder Troll or was he cast of the fire and brimstone
of the BSDi dissolution?
--
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
http://www.morons.org/rants/gpl-harmful.php3
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