Coming back from vacation, I'd just like to add to this dead thread that
there's a WIRED article comparing all the OS's.
They ranked Linux right up there, even above FreeBSD for the amount of
load it can handle without chocking.
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>From: john[SMTP:zaph0d @
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>Sent: Friday, October 31, 1997 3:58 PM
>To: Anton J Aylward
>Cc: Jonathan M. Bresler; Firewall list
>Subject: Re: Pissing Contest (wasRe: Linux et al PFs )
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>He's simply demonstrateing FreeBSD's ability to handle network traffic
>more efficently.
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>Which, directly affects firewalls preformance and security, and therefore
>is very relivant to firewalls discussion.
>
>On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Anton J Aylward wrote:
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>> At 08:55 AM 31/10/97 -0500, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote:
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>> > please show me number better than ftp.cdrom.com
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>> Could you guys move this off the list to provate e-mail.
>> This is no longer constructive to the issue of firewalls.
>> I could equaly make the argument that a firewall is like
>> a fuse so you want to to go down to isolate & protect the
>> internal network. You can chop the logic any which way you
>> want, but once it gets ito "My X is bigger than yours" we
>> are not chopping logic any more.
>>
>> /anton
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