[ILUG] Firewall Overhead.

[David Murphy]

Quoting <Pine.LNX.4.10.10006271055000.11126-100000 at rowan.ece.ul.ie>
by Dave Airlie <David.Airlie at ul.ie>:

> must be a slow week on the xBSD/Solaris advocay lists eh? ;-),
> decided to hop over here and troll ....

"troll v.,n. To utter a posting on Usenet designed to attract
predictable responses or flames" [1]. Fair enough, posting facts about
deficiencies in Linux does draw a predictable response from some
readers of ILUG.

> get thee back to your redbrick

Just FYI, I was involved in setting up RedBrick back in 1995, and so
can assure you that we did test Linux, NetBSD, and FreeBSD out
thoroughly before choosing FreeBSD.

> and may you never leave the happy land where after you finish
> installing your OS you have to get the wholeGNU land utils to do
> anything decent (Solaris for all you unknowing out there :-)), and
> as for BSD don't even get me started, I wouldn't run that on my
> firewall because it doesn't come with AfterStep and GNOME out of the
> box and how can I possibly do any work without those !!!!

I hope for your sake you're trying to be funny here.

> Dave. P.S.: severly pissed at flaming troll ppl who have little else
> to do.. if you spent half the time, nay quarter coding for Linux or
> BSD I might listen to one of ye....

How much time have you spent coding firewalls?

[1] http://www.altairiv.demon.co.uk/troll/trollfaq.html

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