Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 06:51:24 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Berger <peterb@telerama.lm.com> To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Cc: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net>, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, andreas@knobel.gun.de, dennis@etinc.com, hm@altona.hamburg.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.960201064854.6493B-100000@ivory.lm.com> In-Reply-To: <199601290501.XAA02869@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Joe,
The observation that a FreeBSD box acting as a router is "mostly idle" is
bogus; since routing takes place entirely in the kernel and "idleness" is
a measurement of the number of processes in userland waiting to run, I'm
not sure it's an accurate measure.
The real issues are 1) A Cisco will give you better interface performance
than almost any PC; 2) the port density of a Cisco is much better, and 3)
you can't be tempted to do stupid things with a Cisco like "Hey, let's
put a web server on our router today."
Cisco's customer response is pretty much second to none. We've never had
to wait more than next-day for spares, when we need them.
"The law locks up both man and woman/Who steals the goose from off the common
But lets the greater felon loose/Who steals the common from the goose." -anon
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