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Best TCP/IP Stack Implementation?

Posted by Cliff on from the and-the-winner-is dept.

paultantk asks: "This mailing list suggests that the FreeBSD TCP/IP stack is sub-par. It was the best in the 90's, but not anymore. So the question is, which operating system now holds the title for the best TCP/IP stack implementation?"

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  1. In the context of what ? by johnjones · · Score: 4, Informative

    you have to put things in context

    security ? - OpenBSD / NetBSD / Linux

    performance ? - MS Windows 2003 / Linux / FreeBSD
    (windows has been showen to support very nice acceleration card NAPI on linux has been showen 2.6 kernel slower than 2.4 at the recent kernel summit and freeBSD is still up there on exsisting hardware the rewrite is about supporting new models )

    Portability ? NetBSD / Linux / OpenBSD

    context is everything

    regards

    John Jones

  2. Re:Ooooh! Mystery conclusions! by m_chan · · Score: 4, Informative

    Agreed, I don't read that post to say that described the stack as "sub par".

    I did notice something interesting. If you look through the sponsorships he received, a significant amount ($14,000) was pledged was by Pair Networks. They are one of the larger hosting providers in the U.S. and hundreds FreeBSD servers at their data center in Pittsburgh. It is unlikely that they would grant 14 stacks of high society at something they did not research and find to be of direct benefit. I am not an employee of Pair, but I have been a customer for seven years.

    By the way, Pair's Mirrors are quite handy.

  3. Re:WOW at target raising! by Uber+Banker · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well... it is in that Pair Networks are far from the biggest network (webhosting, in their context) company, yet they are contributing something which will be released under the BSD licence, hence truely free... and will be of benefit to all both large and small. So yes it is alturism but in a form which also benefits themselves, as all great alturism should do (spreading good amongst all should benefit yourself, however directly or indirectly).

    So I say GO PAIR NETWORKS!