From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Aug 2 21: 6:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA78937B78E for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 21:06:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billf@jade.chc-chimes.com) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 3C0AF1C65; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 00:06:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 00:06:10 -0400 From: Bill Fumerola To: Joe Greco Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, francis@usls.edu Subject: Re: Cyclades Z series vs. Cisco 2600 Message-ID: <20000803000610.G58109@jade.chc-chimes.com> References: <200008021522.KAA10959@earth.execpc.com> <200008021621.LAA70715@aurora.sol.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200008021621.LAA70715@aurora.sol.net>; from jgreco@ns.sol.net on Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 11:21:52AM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 11:21:52AM -0500, Joe Greco wrote: > > How does the Cyclades Z series system on a FreeBSD machine compare to > > a Cisco 2600 router in terms of async/dialup performance? I'm also > > interested to know why you chose Cyclades over Cisco and vice versa. > > I just got one of these in, but I've not had time to play with it. > > Basically a Cisco 2600 is a dinky little router with very few overall > resources. It has a nice 1U form factor that makes it attractive for > tight locations, and of course it's got fewer moving parts than a PC. > I'm guessing that you can get 16-port serial modules for it, although > I don't know... but if the modules can do 230,400 I'd be impressed, > and I'm fairly sure that the unit would be saturated trying to handle > a few dozen busy ports. cisco 2511 (68030) processor (revision M) with 6144K/2048K bytes of memory. does everything you need (for 16 ports) with the right cables.. -- Bill Fumerola - Network Architect, BOFH / Chimes, Inc. billf@chimesnet.com / billf@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message