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From: "David L. Parsley" <parsley@linuxjedi.org>
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Subject: Re: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?
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<snip stuff about someone using linux for a web cache>

Alan Cox wrote:
> The extreme answer to the 2.4 networking performance is the tux specweb
> benchmarks but they dont answer for all cases clearly.

However, I think you've hit the nail on the head here; much of tux is
just general-purpose network file-blasting.  The right hacker could turn
it into the fastest web-cache on the planet with the right modules.  I
believe Ingo already did a basic ftp server based on tux, just to
demonstrate this generality.

Ingo?  Am I crazy or enlightened?

regards,
	David
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