With pfsense, though, you never see the BSD (unless you want to) - think of DD-WRT - all web based and the new 2.0 (in late beta) is slicker than dog s*&#! Besides, FreeBSD 8 these days is hard to tell apart from Linux with as much as they have done with it. I was an DEC Ultrix man in the late 80s. Talk about nightmares! :-)
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John R. Dennison Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 2:22 PM To: Greg Donald Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [nlug] Any good how-to's on building a transparent caching proxy server? 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 -- "Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention." -- A Bene Gesserit teaching spoken by Miles Teg in "Chapterhouse: Dune" by Frank Herbert -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
