Re: Speed isn't everything, luckily for OpenBSD.

2005-07-23 Thread Brian
--- MikeM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/22/2005 at 9:10 PM Nick Holland wrote: > > | There is just *no* way to explain just how wacked Linux looks to > | someone who is having to go from OpenBSD to Linux for some stuff > | at work. Wow. > | You'd swear it was written by an unorganized mob

Re: Speed isn't everything, luckily for OpenBSD.

2005-07-23 Thread MikeM
On 7/22/2005 at 9:10 PM Nick Holland wrote: | There is just *no* way to explain just how wacked Linux looks to | someone who is having to go from OpenBSD to Linux for some stuff | at work. Wow. | You'd swear it was written by an unorganized mob with no central | control or plan at all. Oh, wai

Re: Speed isn't everything, luckily for OpenBSD.

2005-07-22 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 01:08:04 -0400, Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 09:43:29PM -0700, J.C. Roberts wrote: >> On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 21:10:53 -0400, Nick Holland >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >There is just *no* way to explain just how wacked Linux looks to someone >> >

Re: Speed isn't everything, luckily for OpenBSD.

2005-07-22 Thread Brad
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 09:43:29PM -0700, J.C. Roberts wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 21:10:53 -0400, Nick Holland > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >There is just *no* way to explain just how wacked Linux looks to someone > >who is having to go from OpenBSD to Linux for some stuff at work. Wow. > >

Re: Speed isn't everything, luckily for OpenBSD.

2005-07-22 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 21:10:53 -0400, Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >There is just *no* way to explain just how wacked Linux looks to someone >who is having to go from OpenBSD to Linux for some stuff at work. Wow. > You'd swear it was written by an unorganized mob with no central >contro

Re: Speed isn't everything, luckily for OpenBSD.

2005-07-22 Thread Nick Holland
Spruell, Darren-Perot wrote: > From: Joe . [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... >> I agree with you completely and in a sane and rational world it would >> happen just like that. Unfortunately I highly doubt we'll see any such >> disclaimers though. I bet there are lots of people eager to defect and >> it

Re: Speed isn't everything, luckily for OpenBSD.

2005-07-22 Thread Spruell, Darren-Perot
From: Joe . [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I think, quite the opposite, that it's fine the way it is. It's not > > openbsd's fault that people fall prey to the stupid > knob-tuning game and > > quite dumbly follow that line of thought. I think instead > that the other > > OSes should be responsibl

Re: Speed isn't everything, luckily for OpenBSD.

2005-07-22 Thread Timothy Donahue
On Friday 22 July 2005 01:23 pm, Spruell, Darren-Perot wrote: > From: Joe . [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > are used to dealing with complex or unoptimized piles of crap. Part of > > encouraging people to switch should at the very least be communicating > > that there are no hidden options or that

Re: Speed isn't everything, luckily for OpenBSD.

2005-07-22 Thread Joe .
On 7/22/05, Spruell, Darren-Perot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think, quite the opposite, that it's fine the way it is. It's not > openbsd's fault that people fall prey to the stupid knob-tuning game and > quite dumbly follow that line of thought. I think instead that the other > OSes should b

Re: Speed isn't everything, luckily for OpenBSD.

2005-07-22 Thread Spruell, Darren-Perot
From: Joe . [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > are used to dealing with complex or unoptimized piles of crap. Part of > encouraging people to switch should at the very least be communicating > that there are no hidden options or that straightaway things are going > to work as best as possible. I think, q

Re: Speed isn't everything, luckily for OpenBSD.

2005-07-22 Thread Joe .
On 7/22/05, Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > uh, no. > I think you missed the point of Henning's comment. guilty as charged > This is something for developers to work on, not magic knobs for you to > twist. If there was something worthy of putting in the FAQ about this, > it would be i

Re: Speed isn't everything, luckily for OpenBSD.

2005-07-22 Thread Nick Holland
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 08:48:11AM -0400, Joe . wrote: > On 7/22/05, Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 100Kpps should be reachable with the right hardware right now. > > > > there is room for optimization in OpenBSD to reach way higher > > forwarding rates. > > > > Part of the pr

Re: Speed isn't everything, luckily for OpenBSD.

2005-07-22 Thread Adam
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 02:31:23 -0500 Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fine, so you don't like Cisco. Substitute Raptor or Juniper or some > other product that can do basic Inter-VLAN routing at 100,000 packets/ > second in even their low end products, That doesn't change the > facts, just the br

Re: Speed isn't everything, luckily for OpenBSD.

2005-07-22 Thread Joe .
On 7/22/05, Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Regardless of whether you use the walks-on-water SysKonnect cards or > > "crappy" $470 Intel quad-EM cards, OpenBSD on i386 barely approaches > > half that rate, when doing nothing more than routing packets from one > > interface to another

Re: Speed isn't everything, luckily for OpenBSD.

2005-07-22 Thread Lars Hansson
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 02:31:23 -0500 Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fine, so you don't like Cisco. No sane person *likes* Cisco gear. > Substitute Raptor or Juniper or some other > product that can do basic Inter-VLAN routing at 100,000 packets/second > in even their low end products, Dude,

Re: Speed isn't everything, luckily for OpenBSD.

2005-07-22 Thread Henning Brauer
* Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-22 09:53]: > On 7/21/05, Lars Hansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 12:35:27 -0500 > > Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > To be blunt, because when an enterprise just needs pure unfiltered > > > inter-VLAN routing, Cisco has CEF products