Re: firewalls and bsd
On 2 Dec 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote:
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: Reportedly, *BSD's have the fastest TCI/IP stack in the industry. They
: are also pretty secure, out of the box. For example, while Linux
: mounts disk partitions asynchronously, my FreeBSD installation mounts
: syncronously by default.
... which has nothing to do with security, htough it may help you when
and if the machine blows up and has to fsck on reboot. Of course,
synchronous writes are slower, which is why the linux default is async.
You can change this behavior in /etc/fstab for either OS.
I'd like to see real stats comparing IP stack performance - I've heard
lots of anecdotal evidence, but nothing formal.
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