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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!foxhound.dsto.gov.au!fang.dsto.gov.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!library.ucla.edu!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!hellgate.utah.edu!peruvian.cs.utah.edu!jensen From: jensen%hellgate.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (travis jensen) Subject: Network stability of freeBSD vs. Linux Date: 19 Mar 94 16:40:31 MST Message-ID: <1994Mar19.164032.29720@hellgate.utah.edu> Keywords: network internet linux freebsd Reply-To: jensen%peruvian.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 48 I am going to be putting a pc on the internet in the near future as an anonymous ftp site. We will be using a 486DX2-66 with an IDE drive for the OS and SCSI drives for the ftp stuff. This machine will be hooked up to the 56k line that the rest of our LAN will use to access the Internet. It will be used as the mail server and possibly a small news server in addition. Here are some questions that I have: Which os is more stable for long term up times? This machine will essentially *not* be able to be down. Which os handles network traffic better? I heard that 386bsd is better over slow lines...is this something that I will need to take into consideration as a major deciding factor? Which handles having multiple people logged on better? Am I going to have more problems having 30 people logged on freeBSD or linux? This machine may also be used as a SLIP server. Which handles SLIP better? I am going to have several Macintoshes on the network (using mactcp). Will I have more problems getting them on with one than the other? Any other info you think might be pertinant to what I am going to be doing? If you have a site on the internet, I would especially like to hear about your experiences. Please don't turn this into Linux rocks, bsd sucks (or vise versa). Info is much more useful. Thanks, Travis -- Travis A. Jensen jensen@peruvian.utah.edu "aaahhhhg-g-g-geeeeee"--Alexander Jensen (10/6/93) I am a Scandanavian-American (5 generations removed from Scandanavia)