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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
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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.


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Steve Hovey -- shovey@buffnet.net
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