> Most UDP packets should be firewalled from the Internet. Agree. > This is only really useful if someone has access to the local network. Is > Linux/UP actually *locking* or just temporarily unresponsive? Also, it is > invalid to compare Windows ME running on $3000 hardware with Linux/*BSD > running on an old Pentium. Are you running all of this on the same > hardware? Obviously faster hardware is going to be affected less by a UDP > flood. How about the network cards? Identical network cards for Win2k, Linux SMP and OpemBSD processor (Intel Pro 100). Linux was run on dual p3/1Ghz(SMP), Pentium2/400Mhz and P3/800Mhz (UP). Windows 2000 was run on p3/1Ghz UP. I've made tests with same results against Linux UP boxes running on Celeron/600 with 3com Vortex and realtek 8139 NICs. I've outlined that the result is the same no matter if you hit via 1Gbit or 100Mbit. > I am suspicious that you are just comparing hardware, given that different > versions of W2K perform much differently in your analysis. (You said the > load was server: 35%, professional: 60%) I somehow doubt that MS tuned the > network stack so much on the ``server'' version & wouldn't do the same on > the ``professional'' version. Some of the Linux servers have just the same configuration with the w2k servers. The reaction IS different. That's what amazes me. Also WinME was run on a cheap p2/350 box with an old intel NIC. No slowdown at all :( > I bet a Sun E10K with lots of NICs could flood the Sun UE3500 with lots of > NICs, but that probably doesn't mean that the Solaris 8 network stack is > better than the Solaris 8 network stack; it's because the E10K is faster. well then someone will clear all this stuff for me. -- Stefan Laudat CCNA,CCAI Senior Network Engineer Allianz-Tiriac SA "Let's call it an accidental feature." -- Larry Wall
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