Perhaps they rely on the opinions of other OSes' developers -- many of
whom have borrowed FreeBSD TCP/IP code to bootstrap their own network
stacks. Of course, I think a number of factors contribute to this
without necessarily proving it is the technical "best":
* BSD Unix was first out the gate
On 8/23/2010 11:20 AM, Ed Flecko wrote:
Hi folks,
I have several networking books (TCP/IP, Network Security, etc., etc.)
and it seems that several of them discuss TCP/IP in different
scenarios.
One of the common discussions of different OSes are their own
implementations of the TCP/IP stack. M
Thanks Roland,
The books that I have refer to the "efficiency" of the stack.
Perhaps that's what the authors are referring to as you've referenced
being able to saturate a link with traffic and there's little, if any,
dropped packets?
Ed
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On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 09:20:35AM -0700, Ed Flecko wrote:
> One of the common discussions of different OSes are their own
> implementations of the TCP/IP stack. Most of the authors seem to agree
> that while different OSes have their pros and cons, most seem to agree
> that in terms of pure, netwo
Hi folks,
I have several networking books (TCP/IP, Network Security, etc., etc.)
and it seems that several of them discuss TCP/IP in different
scenarios.
One of the common discussions of different OSes are their own
implementations of the TCP/IP stack. Most of the authors seem to agree
that while
