Date: Sat, 9 Dec 1995 13:52:28 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com> To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware for ISP / WWW server Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951209134904.21094C-100000@haven.uniserve.com> In-Reply-To: <199512092135.PAA22574@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sat, 9 Dec 1995, Joe Greco wrote: > > Strange. I never talked to them. What are they saying? > > I was referring to the "Portmaster can do 115200 on all ports" remark. I > consider this to be marketing propaganda because a Portmaster doing 115200 > in one direction on all ports is creating 11K * 30 (330K) of traffic per > second on an Ethernet, which in the real world is totally impractical. You missing out on some other possibilities for traffic: - other ports - synch port of PM2eR A lot of places use Portmaster's for thing other than ISP. The "real world" is more than just the Internet! Tom
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.3.91.951209134904.21094C-100000>