All this being said about xBSD if you look at the benchmarks FreeBSD wins hands down. There were some benchmarks posted to /. a while back and Linux 2.4 kernel and FreeBSD 4.x were very comparable and so were 2.6 and 5.1 respectively. OpenBSD and NetBSD were not very speedy overall.
OpenBSD makes a good firewall but I would not use it for high bandwidth needs. We do utilize it for our hosting firewall, and it has done a great job. Until recently as our bandwidth grows we have discussed switching to FreeBSD for performance, however; with the introduction of load balancing for OpenBSD firewalls, we will reevaluate to make sure we make the best decision. At that point we could take one firewall for every 4 hosting servers and then do active active load balancing and just add firewalls as we needed. Much more efficient use of a system. -brandon On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 20:10, Matt Pusateri wrote: > Being pro FreeBSD, I would have to say that one thing that seperates them > is FreeBSD seems to have better documentation. Both commercially > published and online. I run FreeBSD on our firewall at work and have had > no problems, while OpenBSD aims to be more secure I have never had > security issues with FreeBSD. I have two web servers running FreeBSD > without any problems either. One reason I liked Freebsd when I first > started out was FreeBSD's website was easier to navigate and was less > intimidating the OpenBSD or NetBSD. Of course I have always had x86 > hardware except for a Old Sparc that NetBSD wouldn't run on. Also I think > FreeBSD is farther ahead in SMP, but I can't definitively qaulify that. > Anyhow that's my completely biased opinion. > > Matt Pusateri > > FreeBSD/Gentoo (see I use linux too:) ) > > >> >[Jim Ray sez:] ever compared OpenBSD to FreeBSD? I'm curious. > >> > > >> Hopefully that's a starter of a comparison. Enjoy! > > [Jim Ray sez:] I reckon ya gotta pick one out and go with it to really > > find > > out. Thanks, Aaron! > > > > -- > > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > > -- __________________________ Brandon L. Newport - CISSP Senior Security Engineer Certified: CISSP, GCIA, CCSE, MCSE Windows NT 4.0, Sun Workgroup, CCNA Affiliated: HTCIA, CSI Appalachian Web Solutions, LLC http://www.appws.com P.O. Box 4254 Charlotte, North Carolina 28117 Ph. 704.658.9990 Fx. 866.422.4006 Mo. 704.564.9246 [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN IM: Nkr1ptD AOL IM: Nkr1ptD ICQ: 108901040 __________________________ -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
