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What's New in the FreeBSD Network Stack

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the shiny-new-features dept.

jjgm writes "As FreeBSD 5-STABLE approaches, Andre Oppermann has produced a high-level presentation on the changes to the FreeBSD 5.3 network stack. There are many clever tricks for performance and scalability. Amongst other things, Andre claims that FreeBSD can now route 1Mpps on a 2.8GHz Xeon whilst Linux can't do much more than 100kpps."

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  1. Heh by k4rm4_p0l7c3 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Nice throughput- so how long before MS implements it in Longhorn or XP ? :D

  2. Re:Playground r00lz for OSS Hackers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Because FreeBSD has a grown-up license [i.e. a license written by grown-ups, as opposed to a license written by Peter Pan Syndrome utopian-fantasist fifty-year-old teenagers],

    Wow.

    Whos' bitter now?