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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!buffnet2.buffnet.net!buffnet3!shovey From: shovey@buffnet.net (steve hovey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux network code vs. FreeBSD Date: 17 Nov 1995 18:54:40 GMT Organization: BuffNET Lines: 32 Message-ID: <48ilpg$1vd@buffnet2.buffnet.net> References: <489b0t$65q@future.internexus.net> <48aeb8$mmj@sernews.raleigh.ibm.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: buffnet3.buffnet.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] evans@evans.raleigh.ibm.com wrote: : In article <489b0t$65q@future.internexus.net>, : master%/etc/HOSTNAME (Laszlo Vecsey) writes: : >I've heard that FreeBSD's network code is 'rock solid' and that : >webserver's, and all network daemons for that matter, perform extremely : >well on this platform. Specifically what is different between Linux's : >implementation of the network code and FreeBSD's? : >Please forward response to newsgroup as well as E-Mail, thanks. : BSD code has been running in production for years, on Suns, 6000s, etc : It is well tested and has benefitted from work by Jacobson to improve : performance. It also has the latest developments, such as fat pipe : support, multicasting, etc : Has anyone ever tested linux vs freebsd? That would make interested : reading. At home I run linux, at work I run freebsd. If I was going to : set up a server, I'd run freebsd, linux OS code seems more solid than : freebsd though. : You might want to see www.paranoia.com, they use linux, they might be : able to provide you with real life experiences. I dont know - I note that my freebsd's will poop out on large transfers where the linux one wont - sometimes Ive seen it with ftp, sometimes with WWW where a page has a lot of graphics. I get tons of frame errors with freebsd + WWW using trumpet winsock as the dos/netscape client on large pages that I dont get with linux. However, I need the ip aliasing of freebsd which is why i went with it. ------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Hovey -- shovey@buffnet.net root@buffnet.net