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Date:      Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:08:44 -0700
From:      "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
To:        "Kip Macy" <kip.macy@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: New driver coming soon. 
Message-ID:  <20070604220844.3366745055@ptavv.es.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 03 Jun 2007 22:02:21 PDT." <b1fa29170706032202y36d7216flbbe2b2cbb9ccdb2@mail.gmail.com> 

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> Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 22:02:21 -0700
> From: "Kip Macy" <kip.macy@gmail.com>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org
> 
> On 6/3/07, Wilkinson, Alex <alex.wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au> wrote:
> >     0n Thu, May 31, 2007 at 03:19:44PM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote:
> >
> >     > FreeBSD customer base has been miniscule so not much has
> >     > been done to the code, maybe someday in my spare time :)
> >
> > "miniscule" ? That's scary to hear :(
> 
> Until the last year, FreeBSD lagged in network performance, so trying
> to push 10 GigE on it was not all that compelling.
> 
> FreeBSD is fast becoming competitive again. I also see a number of
> non-technical factors that may drive a resurgence of interest in
> FreeBSD.

It appears that it is very competitive and the vendors (or at least one
vendor) is aware of it. When we were having issues with getting
acceptable performance with Linux (no, I don't know which one), the
Chelsio engineer suggested that we try FreeBSD-current to see if it
might not do better.

I must admit that I found this way cool and really appreciate all of the
work you, Drew, Andre, jhb and others have done to make this happen.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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