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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:12189 comp.os.386bsd.misc:3093 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!news2.near.net!das-news.harvard.edu!spdcc!merk!rmkhome!rmk From: rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly) Subject: Re: Whats wrong with Linux networking ??? Organization: The Man With Ten Cats Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc References: <Cu107E.Mz3@curia.ucc.ie> <31u76f$3cq@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <michaelv.776150899@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> <321djn$n1o@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> Message-ID: <9408081710.01@rmkhome.com> Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Date: Mon, 8 Aug 1994 22:10:02 GMT Lines: 22 Peter da Silva (peter@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM) wrote: : In article <michaelv.776150899@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu>, : Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@iastate.edu> wrote: : >In <31u76f$3cq@ra.nrl.navy.mil> cmetz@sundance.itd.nrl.navy.mil (Craig Metz) writes: : >>primary goal in a UNIX is networking, you *will* find that Linux is not : >>your best choice, FreeBSD is. The really nasty bugs seem to have been worked : > ^^^^^^^^^^ : >And NetBSD and every other unix based on BSD networking. : I don't know about that. I would rather use Linux than System V for networking, : for System V R 4.0 and earlier, anyway. I haven't played with Destiny. I don't know. I've been pleasantly surprised by SCO NFS, it's not the fastest, but it seems fairly robust, and TCP/IP works as expected. A little kernel tuning can speed it up. -- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.com rmk@bedford.progress.com