[TriLUG] need better router

[Magnus Hedemark]

On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, Brandon L. Newport wrote:

> 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.

It's worth pointing out that modern hardware is so darned fast, this is 
only an issue on maybe <2% of deployed *BSD boxen.

> OpenBSD makes a good firewall but I would not use it for high bandwidth
> needs. 

What do you call "high bandwidth"?  Unless your definition is vastly 
different than mine, I would have to take exception to that.