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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: TCP/IP performance of various BSD versions
Date: 13 Apr 94 06:56:35 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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In <1994Apr13.031857.28789@chico.iecc.com> johnl@chico.iecc.com (John R Levine) writes:
>I'm planning to switch from ISC Unix to one of the BSD versions on
>this 486 box. The machine is directly connected to the Internet, so
>TCP/IP performance and reliability are very important.
>Without starting another War of the BSDs, can anyone give any experience
>about the relative TCP/IP performance and reliability of Netbsd, Freebsd,
>or BSDI?
As far as I know, NetBSD and FreeBSD use essentially the same (quit
excellent) ethernet drivers. I don't think this is an area where they
differ much at all. With Western Digital/SMC 16-bit cards, full
ethernet bandwidth is no problem with the standard ed driver.
Don't have a clue what BSDI uses...
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michaelv@iastate.edu Project Vincent Systems Staff
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