[TriLUG] need better router

[Brandon L. Newport]

All this being said about xBSD if you look at the benchmarks FreeBSD
wins hands down.  There were some benchmarks posted to /. a while back
and Linux 2.4 kernel and FreeBSD 4.x were very comparable and so were
2.6 and 5.1 respectively.  OpenBSD and NetBSD were not very speedy
overall.

OpenBSD makes a good firewall but I would not use it for high bandwidth
needs.  We do utilize it for our hosting firewall, and it has done a
great job.  Until recently as our bandwidth grows we have discussed
switching to FreeBSD for performance, however; with the introduction of
load balancing for OpenBSD firewalls, we will reevaluate to make sure we
make the best decision.  At that point we could take one firewall for
every 4 hosting servers and then do active active load balancing and
just add firewalls as we needed.  Much more efficient use of a system.

-brandon


On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 20:10, Matt Pusateri wrote:
> Being pro FreeBSD, I would have to say that one thing that seperates them
> is FreeBSD seems to have better documentation.  Both commercially
> published and online.  I run FreeBSD on our firewall at work and have had
> no problems, while  OpenBSD aims to be more secure I have never had
> security issues with FreeBSD.    I have two web servers running FreeBSD
> without any problems either.  One reason I liked Freebsd when I first
> started out was FreeBSD's website was easier to navigate and was less
> intimidating the OpenBSD or NetBSD.  Of course I have always had x86
> hardware except for a Old Sparc that NetBSD wouldn't run on.  Also I think
> FreeBSD is farther ahead in SMP, but I can't definitively qaulify that.
> Anyhow that's my completely biased opinion.
> 
> Matt Pusateri
> 
> FreeBSD/Gentoo (see I use linux too:) )
> 
> >> >[Jim Ray sez:] ever compared OpenBSD to FreeBSD?  I'm curious.
> >> >
> >> Hopefully that's a starter of a comparison.  Enjoy!
> > [Jim Ray sez:] I reckon ya gotta pick one out and go with it to really
> > find
> > out.  Thanks, Aaron!
> >
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