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2.4 is fine as-is: people using it for production systems are not likely
to move off it for a long time (if ever). You have it, it works, there's
little impetus in general to move to anything else, with all the
additional effort/risk/cost involved.
In my particular case, this was a project requirement for various
reasons - the boxes needed to be dropped off at remote locations and
forgotten about (maintenance-wise) for the next 10 years, most
new/custom hardware cards are targeting 2.6 rather than 2.4, and the
trajectory of 2.4 is that of maintenance, while 2.6 is still seeing
improvements/enhancements.
The reason for ruling out uclibc in this case was that there was a
significant software stack above the OS, and it was lower risk to use
libc rather than uclibc/diet/<pick your low-fat libc here>.
The reason for not using embedded Debian or Redhat or even something
like M0n0wall or something else based on ipkg? There was a large legacy
code base that was Bering/LRP based.
Hope that helps,
-Venki
On 03/15/2006 06:21 PM, KP Kirchdoerfer wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 15. März 2006 16:29 schrieb Venki Iyer:
In any case, I did roll a 2.6-based version of Bering late last year
(started out as a project effort, turned into a labor of love - thanks
guys!), could probably push it back into one of the project trees if
there is any interest. I'm not sure I'll be able to devote much time
to it moving forward, though. Comments/thoughts - Mike, others?
Venki;
sounds interesting.
I'd like to ask, what's your experience using a 2.6 kernel compared to a 2.4
kernel for a router?
I've read that some network cards are slower with 2.6 - maybe that's solved
today.
What's the benefit, what does a 2.6 kernel provide you miss on a 2.4 kernel?
just curious
kp
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