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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or freebsd as backbone router Date: 18 Sep 1995 02:56:55 GMT Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 17 Message-ID: <43in5n$7b9@reason.cdrom.com> References: <43hc40$9i@skipper.netrail.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) To: nathan@netrail.net X-URL: news:43hc40$9i@skipper.netrail.net I'm generally always willing to give Linux its just due - it's a fine OS and an amazing achievement for a "from scratch" effort. But to use it in that application? I'm sorry, I just wouldn't even consider it. We run both 10Mb and 100Mb gateways with FreeBSD boxes here and our ftp/www server, ftp.cdrom.com, is the busiest site on the internet (well, according to the New York Times, anyway, who collected stats from the NSF, BARRNET and ALTERNET for a few weeks in making that determination). None of this would have been possible with Linux - the networking code is simply just too green! Someday, perhaps. Today, no. I would say that FreeBSD or BSDI are your only choices for Intel based solutions (SGI makes a nice box too, but that's in quite a different price league! :-). -- Jordan