From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 29 16:37:32 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ECA916A4D2 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:37:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from internet.potentialtech.com (h-66-167-251-6.phlapafg.covad.net [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9799543D76 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:37:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from working.potentialtech.com (pa-plum-cmts1e-68-68-113-64.pittpa.adelphia.net [68.68.113.64]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by internet.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E7DB69A3F; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 11:37:30 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 11:37:29 -0500 From: Bill Moran To: david.jenkins@gmail.com Message-Id: <20041129113729.64d8c3ae.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <45624.194.168.3.18.1101745265.squirrel@194.168.3.18> References: <41AB3354.4010302@esiee.fr> <20041129093917.222ccad8.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <200411291844.36416.ostap@radiant.ru> <20041129100506.29d2da5f.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <45624.194.168.3.18.1101745265.squirrel@194.168.3.18> Organization: Potential Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.99 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.10) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: ostap@radiant.ru cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: simple router ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:37:32 -0000 "David Jenkins" wrote: > On Mon, 29 November, 2004 15:05, Bill Moran said: > > Sergey Evteeff wrote: > >> Hi. > >> > >> > > What would be the best version of FreeBSD to perform such > >> operation > >> > > 4.10 or 5.3 ? > >> > 5.3. > >> > >> Why? > There have been quite a lot of threads in the past month regarding the > network performance of 5.3 being inferior to 4.10. > > You might also want to bear in mind that with the 5 series you have > the benefit of OpenBSD's pf firewall. Although more information on 4.x > and pf is available at the following link. > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-pf/2004-September/000300.html > > Personally, if it was me, I'd go with 5.x rather than 4.x, but if you > are going to be pushing a lot of data then perhaps search the archives > for the last month or two regarding network performance. I'm not sure if this is 100% correct anymore. I seem to remember that the performance problems were in 5.3BETA and were fixed prior to the release of 5.3-RELEASE. I'm willing to be corrected if I'm wrong, but I think research of reliable sources would be smart. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com