From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 23 15:22:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBE7A37B422; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 15:22:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id PAA71953; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 15:22:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 15:22:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: steveb99 Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD, BSDi differences In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, steveb99 wrote: > I'm still new to FreeBSD and like it so far, but I'm thinking of ways I can > use it at work. I hear about BSDi and that it is used in many network > appliances like f5's BigIP load balancers and other similar products. What > I've read BSDi is used because of it excellent TCP stack and other > networking. So how different is FreeBSD TCP stack and networking from > BSDi's? Very little. Both FreeBSD and BSDi are derived from the same code. There are no doubt a few differences, but based on what I've seen in other parts of the BSD/OS code I'd be surprised if theirs had received as much work as our network code has. Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message