Bill Moran wrote:
There have been quite a lot of threads in the past month regarding the network performance of 5.3 being inferior to 4.10.
You might also want to bear in mind that with the 5 series you have the benefit of OpenBSD's pf firewall. Although more information on 4.x and pf is available at the following link.
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-pf/2004-September/000300.html
Personally, if it was me, I'd go with 5.x rather than 4.x, but if you are going to be pushing a lot of data then perhaps search the archives for the last month or two regarding network performance.
I'm not sure if this is 100% correct anymore. I seem to remember that the performance problems were in 5.3BETA and were fixed prior to the release of 5.3-RELEASE.
I'm willing to be corrected if I'm wrong, but I think research of reliable sources would be smart.
Well ... I forgot to say I need this router for few weeks only it will be replaced by a cisco box when I will be able to purchase it ,-) So
I think a conservative choice would be the best for me in the light of advices I got from people of this list.
So I'll build the router on 4.10 base as I really don't need extra features than routing .
Thanks a lot guys
Frank
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