From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 23 20:22:47 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 793B71065672 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:22:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from edflecko@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gw0-f54.google.com (mail-gw0-f54.google.com [74.125.83.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1699E8FC1B for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:22:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gwj23 with SMTP id 23so2713048gwj.13 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:22:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=s5lUVEyALF/q4N+mCPqqXoOx3r+uNUIlwFPeeWq5j1o=; b=rJk8s5f6aUBWzoDElv0gybehBk8SmP1uUY1VxWCzGOz/KkOAgaJ/Q64+l/lhANs8m0 gdXoX8CCJb8j7doFZac+3IzhGc6/Ir7WSxTfAa5LM5Uvx0oTGe6AgR3ZpH9+ucMga1mh d781e4TpoaLDbTJIII0jSQB3b6D58IV93ZDv8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=SqTi45soNYUPA1JaIKLQ/Z1OZlRx63aE1xoCuCAVrFcCYYYOtGSo5Yur//P+NO5gU9 Q6H5wf8/XucujtCwzAzhjORL/iaVnZ42MR3XzhhhiNXKPROBIRVOekz6+1A9Bu/JGz+p n5rLMKzQmiQUf2pqiOJVsI3pwLdJZJ8T1a/MQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.151.63.30 with SMTP id q30mr5960534ybk.154.1282594965802; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:22:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.145.21 with HTTP; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:22:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100823180446.GA36043@slackbox.erewhon.net> References: <20100823180446.GA36043@slackbox.erewhon.net> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:22:45 -0700 Message-ID: From: Ed Flecko To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: Why is the FreeBSD TCP/IP stack the best? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:22:47 -0000 Thanks Roland, The books that I have refer to the "efficiency" of the stack. Perhaps that's what the authors are referring to as you've referenced being able to saturate a link with traffic and there's little, if any, dropped packets? Ed