I honed on this as well. I can't speak much to running FreeBSD as a server, but can say that using it as a router is not a great experience compared to Linux.

I honed on this as well. I can't speak much to running FreeBSD as a server, but can say that using it as a router is not a great experience compared to Linux. I can't even get the latest ECMP (ROUTE_MPATH) feature working with FRR (or even by hand).