we may be in a position to do a trial in a week or so (when semester ends the CR folk will be much less twitchy about us failing over between the firewalls). We are currently running on 4.0 I have just got some new hardware (four dual core boxes that are unemployed for the moment) that we can configure up with OBSD 4.2 & FreeBSD 7. and see how they perform on a real network (normal traffic between 80 - 100 Mbps).
Russell Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > "Michael W. Lucas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> It actually seems to me that you're in an ideal position to create >> those comparison benchmarks. One hosts with each OS, using CARP to >> failover between them. I suspect that both groups of developers would >> be interested in the results. Once you have made a decision, >> upgrading one is simpler than changing both. >> > > It would be interesting to hear any data that comes out of tests like > that. That is, as long as the OP doesn't mind being a guinea pig. > > - P >
