From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 29 12:50:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [216.33.66.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B44C37B416; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 12:50:08 -0800 (PST) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id 340DE81D05; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 14:50:03 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 14:50:03 -0600 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Eric Melville Cc: Nyteckjobs@aol.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, tedm@toybox.placo.com Subject: Re: (no subject) Message-ID: <20011129145003.V46769@elvis.mu.org> References: <14e.4d05ff7.29371325@aol.com> <20011129115909.A75251@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011129115909.A75251@FreeBSD.org>; from eric@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 11:59:09AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Eric Melville [011129 13:59] wrote: > > The concept that "netgraph hooks" are a "leg up" on say, ETs drivers that > > have integrated bandwidth management and prioritization, WAN bridging > > support, load balancing and a probably 25% performance advantage is a bit > > entertaining. Unless you need to do some convoluted encapsulation netgraph > > is, aside from being appallingly non-standard to anything else in the market, > > not much of an "advantage", and its a poster child for the trade off of > > "flexibility" versus performance. > > > > Lets face it. If you were going to sit down and design an interface for frame > > relay, multi-protocol support, etc, you'd have to be smoking something pretty > > strong to come up with netgraph. But its free and there is source, so it > > must be great! > > Dennis, if you are going to continue trolling FreeBSD mailing lists from > your AOL account, you should really consider choosing a name that does not > coincide with what we already know or can easily find out about you. Just for historical reasons I have a question... Is Dennis and Elder Troll or was he cast of the fire and brimstone of the BSDi dissolution? -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' http://www.morons.org/rants/gpl-harmful.php3 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message