simple router ?

[Frank Bonnet]

Bill Moran 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.
> 

Well ... I forgot to say I need this router for few weeks only it will 
be replaced by a cisco box when I will be able to purchase it ,-) So
I think a conservative choice would be the best for me in the light of 
advices I got from people of this list.
So I'll build the router on 4.10 base as I really don't need extra 
features than routing .

Thanks a lot guys

Frank


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Frank Bonnet