[ale] Opinion Call: Firewalls for DSL

[BHa at ixl.com]

I am surprised that FreeBSD's networking is 10% more efficient than Linux.
4-5 years ago, Linux's networking was completely rewritten and we had
become par with the BSD.

It may be time for Alan Cox to revisit his networking codes.

I have to say that Linux owes a lot to the BSD crowd: FreeBSD, NetBSD, ...
Without their continuing reminders how "bad" we are, we would not have
advanced as fas as we have done now.

Bao

-----Original Message-----
From: Stuffed Crust [mailto:pizza at shaftnet.org]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 10:28 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Opinion Call: Firewalls for DSL


On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 05:56:48PM -0400, Robert Hoffman wrote:
> I have just built a new firewall using FreeBSD. This was my first foray
into the FreeBSD world but it wasn't that hard to figure out (it is very
similar to Linux but without the SystemV init system.) I have to say that I
really like FreeBSD. The reason I switched was for the rock-solid stability,
and the TCP/IP stack. I figure that if FreeBSD's IP stack is 10% more
efficient than Linux's, that's 10% more bandwidth for my users.

Hmm.  I'd think "efficient" would refer to cpu utilization or processing
speed or something like that.  TCP/IP is still TCP/IP, and you're not
going to get 10% more _bandwidth_ out of the same pipe unless you have a
pretty slow machine pushing bits..

 - Pizza
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