From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Dec 9 13:50:17 1995 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA16684 for isp-outgoing; Sat, 9 Dec 1995 13:50:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from haven.uniserve.com (haven.uniserve.com [198.53.215.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA16671 for ; Sat, 9 Dec 1995 13:50:11 -0800 (PST) Received: by haven.uniserve.com id <30733-2>; Sat, 9 Dec 1995 13:52:37 -0000 Date: Sat, 9 Dec 1995 13:52:28 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Samplonius To: Joe Greco cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware for ISP / WWW server In-Reply-To: <199512092135.PAA22574@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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