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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!bowl.news.pipex.net!pipex!halon.vggas.com!news From: JYoungman@vggas.com (James Youngman) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux vs whatever Date: 30 Jan 1997 15:17:54 GMT Organization: VG Gas Analysis Systems Lines: 20 Message-ID: <5cqe32$d22@halon.vggas.com> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5cm5h3$bfg@lynx.dac.neu.edu> <5cmv5q$k6d@cynic.portal.ca> <5co7vd$lvt@lynx.dac.neu.edu> <5coib1$jvv@cynic.portal.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriel.vggas.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.8 (x86 32bit) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:155302 comp.os.linux.networking:66756 comp.os.linux.setup:94733 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2159 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:51457 comp.os.os2.advocacy:264567 In article <5coib1$jvv@cynic.portal.ca>, cjs@cynic.portal.ca says... >Two years ago it did not. I've not done any testing recently or >seen any tests that I would consider more than tentative, but from >everything I'm still hearing, Linux networking still does not >perform as well as BSD networking. However, this is not an issue >that I really care to debate; so if you wish to assert that Linux >networking is just as good without some solid testing to support >you, I'm not going to refute that. Let's not get carried away here. Even BSD networking is not the best. A few years ago VJ did a reimplementation of the BSD stack that entirely did away with mbufs and (IIRC) nearly doubled its speed. Unfortunately this implementation isn't widely available (at least, I've never seen it). -- James Youngman VG Gas Analysis Systems |The trouble with the rat-race Before sending advertising material, read |is, even if you win, you're http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/47/227.html|still a rat.