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From: ai474@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Farrell McGovern)
Subject: Re: Can Minix IP Forward - use as Router?
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Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 07:21:54 GMT
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Thomas David Rivers (sastdr@torpid.unx.sas.com) writes:
> In article <4f4mrm$4e@studs2.sci.kun.nl> everbrug@sci.kun.nl (Erik Verbruggen) writes:
>>> especially the networking stuff then I certainly will.
>>
>>So as router, it won't be that fast (if it's possible). I think you can better
>>use Linux or some kinda MS-DOS package (eg. NOS). That should do better.
>>
>  A lot of people are very happy using FreeBSD as a router... 
> It has one major advantage over Linux in this area - it's networking
> code is *the* networking code that's been developed by BSD for over
> ten years - it's quite robust.

	Please take your religious prosletizing to your appropriate
.advocacy newsgroup! 

ttyl
     Farrell

