From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 23 09:12:28 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA13617 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 09:12:28 -0700 Received: from whisker.internet-eireann.ie (whisker.internet-eireann.ie [194.9.34.204]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA13605 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 09:12:21 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by whisker.internet-eireann.ie (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA27756; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 12:38:53 +0100 To: Amos Shapira cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers Mailing List) Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a router In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 23 Jun 1995 11:37:54 +0300." <199506230837.AA05786@picton.cs.huji.ac.il> Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 12:38:51 +0100 Message-ID: <27754.803907531@whisker.internet-eireann.ie> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Eh?? Sorry to hear that. A major part of my interest in FreeBSD over > Linux (besides getting back to good old 4.2BSD/4.3Tahoe days :) is > that I though it is a tiger in networking. Tiger? Well, it's certainly more ROBUST in many respects, but it's also extremely unfair to compare a PC with hardware limitations apleanty and many dozens of layers of software for a packet to go through to a silicon switch engine which has been designed to do ONE thing, and that's route packets. That said, if you're interested in profiling the code and putting some work into making it faster, you're more than welcome! This is a volunteer project, after all, and volunteers like yourself get the responsibility for solving problems like this in exchange for getting it all for free. It's a two way street, you know! > Will NetBSD fair better? Is there any work being done on this? 1. I seriously doubt it. 2. Not that I know of. Jordan