From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 23 09:19:45 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA14138 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 09:19:45 -0700 Received: from virgo.ai.net (root@virgo.ai.net [198.69.44.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA14116 ; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 09:19:42 -0700 Received: from aries.ai.net (aries.ai.net [198.69.44.1]) by virgo.ai.net (8.6.11/8.6.12) with ESMTP id MAA00408; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 12:20:36 -0400 Received: (from nc@localhost) by aries.ai.net (8.6.11/8.6.12) id MAA19749; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 12:15:02 -0400 Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 12:15:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Network Coordinator To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Amos Shapira , FreeBSD Hackers Mailing List Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a router In-Reply-To: <27754.803907531@whisker.internet-eireann.ie> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 23 Jun 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Eh?? Sorry to hear that. A major part of my interest in FreeBSD over > > Linux (besides getting back to good old 4.2BSD/4.3Tahoe days :) is > > that I though it is a tiger in networking. > I think a couple of people (or just me) misread what this guy was trying to say. SO: Linux will not act as a faster router than BSD as far as I know. BSD's limitations are not code based as much as hardware based [which was mentioned before]. Among software based routing solutions BSD is among the fastest, period. When getting into hardware based routers [which is where everyone is so sensitive] you cannot compare performance because the hardware solution is much faster as one would expect. Its like comparing game performance on an old PC versus a Sega Saturn. -Jerry.