Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 12:15:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Network Coordinator <nc@ai.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freebsd.org> Cc: Amos Shapira <amoss@cs.huji.ac.il>, FreeBSD Hackers Mailing List <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a router Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950623121152.19727B-100000@aries.ai.net> In-Reply-To: <27754.803907531@whisker.internet-eireann.ie>
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On Fri, 23 Jun 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > 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. > I think a couple of people (or just me) misread what this guy was trying to say. SO: Linux will not act as a faster router than BSD as far as I know. BSD's limitations are not code based as much as hardware based [which was mentioned before]. Among software based routing solutions BSD is among the fastest, period. When getting into hardware based routers [which is where everyone is so sensitive] you cannot compare performance because the hardware solution is much faster as one would expect. Its like comparing game performance on an old PC versus a Sega Saturn. -Jerry.
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