Date: Sat, 9 Dec 1995 15:53:22 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: tom@uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius) Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware for ISP / WWW server Message-ID: <199512092153.PAA22623@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951209134904.21094C-100000@haven.uniserve.com> from "Tom Samplonius" at Dec 9, 95 01:52:28 pm
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> 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! Yes, but consider the context: a discussion on freebsd-isp from a fellow who is setting up an isp... And of course there are other possibilities for the traffic. But in your typical ISP scenario, the most likely possibility is out the Internet connection :-) ... JG
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