How to receive a million packets per second
A joke answer and a serious question:<p>A: "Use BSD"<p>Q: Why is there such a strong focus on trying to get Linux network performance when (I think) everyone agrees BSD is better at networking?  What does Linux offer beyond the network that BSD doesn't when it comes to applications that demand the fastest networks?<p>ps.  I think the markdown filter is broken, I can't make a literal asterisk with a backslash.  Anyone know how HN lets you make an inline asterisk?