On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 02:14:43PM -0600, Greg Donald wrote: > > I've been using pfSense for the past 3 years or so. It too runs just > from a CD if you want. > > To me BSD just feels so much faster than Linux for routing and firewall stuff.
As much as I still have nightmares over legacy BSD systems it
makes a much better routing and filtering platform in most cases
than Linux. There is significantly less overhead in the
matching and forwarding code and the way it handles network
buffers than the related Linux kernel bits.
John
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