Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 07:56:26 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> To: Danial Thom <danial_thom@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, ann kok <annkok2001@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: freebsd router Message-ID: <20060111135626.GG98918@over-yonder.net> In-Reply-To: <20060111134814.19609.qmail@web33307.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20060111133229.GF98918@over-yonder.net> <20060111134814.19609.qmail@web33307.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 05:48:14AM -0800 I heard the voice of Danial Thom, and lo! it spake thus: > > I'd be interested in hearing your reasoning for thinking so. I can walk over to Cisco and buy a router that will push well over a billion packets per second. FreeBSD 4.x can't even come within 3 orders of magnitude of that. > Routing is fastest when implemented as a single process task. Not even remotely true. And routing is CERTAINLY not fastest when implemented on a CPU. > While it could be possible to have a faster routing subsystem on a > custom-designed MP O/S, its not practical to build a general purpose > O/S in such a way. s/could be/absolutely is/ Which pretty well eliminates the statement "FreeBSD foo is the fastest router platform Man has ever created" right there. The fastest router platform is and will always be a platform designed to be a router. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.
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