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Subject: Re: Router + ADM64
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Jon Otterholm wrote:

> Hi!
>
> What is there to gain in performance choosing AMD64 on a Dell PE1850 
> (Xeon EMT64) when used as router?
>
> /Jon 

I have one running under Amd64 FreeBSD.
When polling is enabled I do get transfer speeds of up to 
112megabytes/sec, the only real down side as far as I am concerned is 
missing out on VPN capability, which is broken on the AMD64 arch for 
unknown reasons, I can only hope I won't need it.

Mike