simple router ?

[David Jenkins]

On Mon, 29 November, 2004 16:37, Bill Moran said:
> "David Jenkins" <david.jenkins at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.

This is quite interesting.
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-November/064401.html

And specifically.
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-November/064427.html

Cheers,
David