From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 1 03:52:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA20616 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 03:52:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from ivory.lm.com (ivory.lm.com [192.231.221.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA20609 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 03:52:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (from peterb@localhost) by ivory.lm.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id GAA06854; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 06:51:26 -0500 Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 06:51:24 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Berger X-Sender: peterb@ivory.lm.com To: Joe Greco cc: Jaye Mathisen , 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 In-Reply-To: <199601290501.XAA02869@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Message-ID: X-Mentos: The Freshmaker! X-Request-Do: resolve MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Berger - peterb@telerama.lm.com - http://www.lm.com/~peterb