Re: TCPIP stack needs work?

1998-09-17 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I'd be interested to hear about this. Can you give me information more specific than tha freeBSD is better? For instance, is it latency, code path, reliability, what? Tod Detre wrote: I'm on the quake 2 server mailing list and recently they are complaining about linux's tcp/ip stack. A few

Re: TCPIP stack needs work?

1998-09-17 Thread Tod Detre
I'm not really sure. I haven't seen it myself, but they claim that thier ping times (where quake2 ping times are 2 things put together. One the ping between the server and the client. Two it adds simething with the frames per second) get worse as the more clients join. This is understandable, but

Re: TCPIP stack needs work?

1998-09-17 Thread A. M. Varon
On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Tod Detre wrote: I'm not really sure. I haven't seen it myself, but they claim that their ping times (where quake2 ping times are 2 things put together. One the ping between the server and the client. Two it adds something with the frames per second) get worse as the more

TCPIP stack needs work?

1998-09-16 Thread Tod Detre
I'm on the quake 2 server mailing list and recently they are complaining about linux's tcp/ip stack. A few of them said that free=bsd and ever NT work better than linux. This is for when there is 10 peoplæ connected. What I want to know is this. Is this really something in the tcpip stack or is