From owner-freebsd-net Thu Apr 26 11:18:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from verdi.nethelp.no (verdi.nethelp.no [158.36.41.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1EBA437B422 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 11:18:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sthaug@nethelp.no) Received: (qmail 81649 invoked by uid 1001); 26 Apr 2001 18:16:49 +0000 (GMT) To: mike@sentex.net Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: number of interfaces and performance ? From: sthaug@nethelp.no In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Apr 2001 13:47:04 -0400" References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010426134003.040f2b60@marble.sentex.ca> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.05+ on Emacs 19.34.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 20:16:49 +0200 Message-ID: <81646.988309009@verdi.nethelp.no> Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Hmmm.. This does look interesting. Note that there is way more bandwidth > than I need. Like I said, I am only going to push tops 30Mb/s through the > thing. The cisco would certainly do the job, but I am still looking at 10 > times the cost. If I need to spend the money I will, I just hate spending > the money needlessly. I'm quite sure that you could get a FreeBSD box to perform adequately with 30 Mbps through the box. You may have less hassle with a Cisco box, but as you have noticed it'll cost you. I mentioned the 2948G-L3 simply as an alternative to the 3640. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message