From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Oct 23 06:03:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA23680 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 06:03:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp) Received: from axe.cablenet.net (axe.cablenet.net [194.154.36.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA23669 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 06:02:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from damian@axe.cablenet.net) Received: from axe (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by axe.cablenet.net (8.8.7/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA26883; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 13:58:57 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <344F4A11.353C51DE@cablenet.net> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 13:58:57 +0100 From: Damian Hamill Organization: CableNet Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.4 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dru Nelson CC: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Routing thru a FreeBSD? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I think you misunderstood his question. He didn't ask about ethernet switching, he asked about IP routing. Dru Nelson wrote: > > I doubt it. Unless there is specialized hardware involved. > cisco and others have invested heavily in 'silicon switching'. > there are more layer 3 ethernet switches out there. > > I think FreeBSD is an excellent solution for most things, but > a good Cisco router will really perform. > > On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Nicolai Petri wrote: > > > > > Is it possible to setup a FreeBSD to make highperformance routing between 2 > > 100Mbit Nets ???? Could it be as fast as Cisco IOS??? > > > > Bye, > > Nicolai Petri > > > > > > -- * Damian Hamill M.D. damian@cablenet.net * CableNet & The Landscape Channel * http://www.cablenet.net/ http://www.landscapetv.com/