On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Brett Lymn wrote: > >. NetBSD used to have the fastest networking code, > > > > I thought that was FreedBSD that actually had the fastest networking. > NetBSD is noted for having the broadest range of supported platforms - > great pains are taken to make NetBSD as portable as possible.
Net's code used to be faster and that's where Darren starts with IPF, so it was always a slightly better choice for filtering IMO- I have no idea if the relative speed has changed in the last half-dozen or so years though, and I'm pretty sure the difference was neglagble enough not to really matter to anyone in the real world. FreeBSD was better than Net for application performance at the time, and I admit to not tuning or testing a whole bunch since Net happened to scale well beyond the ~90Mb/s I had, let alone the tiny bit of bandwidth my users at the time were taking up. Replacing an aging $35,000 commercial filtering firewall with a pair of PCs and getting less latency while adding redundancy was good enough for me to declare victory and work on other stuff. Paul ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Robertson "My statements in this message are personal opinions [EMAIL PROTECTED] which may have no basis whatsoever in fact." _______________________________________________ Firewalls mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls
