"David Jenkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 29 November, 2004 15:05, Bill Moran said: > > Sergey Evteeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi. > >> > >> > > What would be the best version of FreeBSD to perform such > >> operation > >> > > 4.10 or 5.3 ? > >> > 5.3. > >> > >> Why?
<snip my earlier comments> > There have been quite a lot of threads in the past month regarding the > network performance of 5.3 being inferior to 4.10. > > You might also want to bear in mind that with the 5 series you have > the benefit of OpenBSD's pf firewall. Although more information on 4.x > and pf is available at the following link. > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-pf/2004-September/000300.html > > Personally, if it was me, I'd go with 5.x rather than 4.x, but if you > are going to be pushing a lot of data then perhaps search the archives > for the last month or two regarding network performance. I'm not sure if this is 100% correct anymore. I seem to remember that the performance problems were in 5.3BETA and were fixed prior to the release of 5.3-RELEASE. I'm willing to be corrected if I'm wrong, but I think research of reliable sources would be smart. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
