Siju George writes:
> On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Ashish SHUKLA <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> FYI, there are several things Linux kernel does better, esp. its network
>> stack, and there are some things FreeBSD does better. If you've weird
>> fantasies about your network setup (including multi-path routing), in that
>> case GNU/Linux is the one of the best way to realize that.
>> 

> I guess by multi-path routing you mean

> http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#Multipath

Yes, but I never got around to try OpenBSD's multipath routing, I tried
FreeBSD's recently committed ECMP support[1], but it never worked as expected
for me. I'd two DSLs at work from same ISP who provides PPPoE connection with
same remote endpoint set in all connections[2]. FreeBSD didn't work for me as
expected, and I wasn't familiar with OpenBSD that time.

> Could you please mention one weird fantsy that Linux does better?

Policy based routing combined with multiple routing tables containing
multipath routes.

In OpenBSD, you can achieve this using pf's 'route-to', but that's firewall
and not routing table. In FreeBSD, this has been possible recently with FIB
support it got, but to use it, you've to use ipfw(8), and not pf(8) :( .

And, there was not any FreeBSD release since 5.4-BETA3 (my zeroth release)
which never panic'd for me, and whereas not every GNU/Linux kernel update
panic'd for me.

Anyways, BSDs and GNU/Linux both have there pros/cons and both are under
development. And IMHO, badmouthing them without proper citations is same as
bullshitting.

>>> If you guys are planning to java
>>>> development and stuff, I would say BSDs are a bad choice.
>> 
>>> kindly elicit on this.
>> 
>> Because no JVM vendor officially supports Java on BSDs, even though there is
>> an agreement between FreeBSD Foundation and Sun Microsystems[2] regarding 
>> Java
>> but it's not clear about the support. But most of things work just fine.
>> 

> Hear some thing similar

> http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=120524299726052&w=2

Thanks for the link. I didn't know there are people running Java in production
on BSDs. It's nice.

References:
[1]  http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-src/2008-April/089956.html
[2]  
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc/browse_thread/thread/3d3aa040e55ee121/

Thanks
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