Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 11:37:29 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: david.jenkins@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: simple router ? 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>
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"David Jenkins" <david.jenkins@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 29 November, 2004 15:05, Bill Moran said: > > Sergey Evteeff <ostap@radiant.ru> wrote: > >> Hi. > >> > >> > > What would be the best version of FreeBSD to perform such > >> operation > >> > > 4.10 or 5.3 ? > >> > 5.3. > >> > >> Why? <snip my earlier comments> > 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
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