Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 18:23:01 +0200 From: Yury Tarasievich <grog@grsu.by> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD firewall for high profile hosts - waste of time ? Message-ID: <3E282DE5.4090209@grsu.by> References: <20030116124254.J9642-100000@mail.econolodgetulsa.com> <3E2739D1.5402B7A6@mindspring.com>
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Terry Lambert wrote: >FreeBSD is actually adding pointers and other complexity to its >stack > [...etc.] So you are referring to common features of stacks of both 4.* and 5.*, right? As far as I understand the matter, this all have to be (and I guess actually is) provable. Now, you were saying that 5.* is even worse, I quote: > FreeBSD 5.x network performance is really poor, relative to 4.x; I do > not recommend using FreeBSD 5.x in a production environment. Then I wonder *what* were the reasons for not working on matters pointed out??? You were also saying in same post that: > The fixes are mostly > simple, but for whatever reason, they never make it into FreeBSD > proper (my theory is that the developement focus is heavily skewed > to general purpose processing, rather than network processing). And throttling the "FlagFeature"??? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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