[tech] Switchesu

[Ben Rampling]

> 
> >I suggest using FreeBSD or NetBSD. Linux 2.2 doesn't do as much cool
> >networking stuff as the stable BSD releases and Linux 2.4-test7 gave me an
> >OOPS in "fs.c" after about a day of use :)
> 
> We had BSD installed on the router... and this was replaced because almost 
> all of wheel could not be bothered to learn how to administrate it (me 
> included).

It was promptly put back because numerous versions of Linux caused
unresolvable network lockups several times a day. The router still runs
FreeBSD.

Regards,
Ben Rampling