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Robert Sanders writes: > >BTW, we are managing to get NetBSD to handle multiple ethernets at > >wire speed now that NetBSD-current has (still experimental) flow cache > >code in it. > > [perhaps erroneously supposing that the promise of new longevity for Unix > on commodity hardware as an edge packet forwarding engine is relevant to > NANOG...] > > I heard on the FreeBSD lists that NASA is sponsoring this work. Nope. Matt Thomas is doing that on his own time. NASA *has* sponsored some NetBSD based work on storage systems -- their Numerical Simulation Facility apparently needs filestores much bigger than any commercial vendor can manage, and they've been using BSD boxes for them. This is really far afield of nanog, though. Perry
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