Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 00:41:12 +0200 From: "IBS / Andre Oppermann" <andre@pipeline.ch> To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Routing thru a FreeBSD? Message-ID: <344FD288.7F856AB5@pipeline.ch> References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.971022103105.26211B-100000@slip-3> <344F4A11.353C51DE@cablenet.net> <82iuuoi1xu.fsf@chimp.juniper.net>
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Tony Li wrote: -snip- > Ob FreeBSD: The point here is that at some point, when you need many > hundreds of thousands of PPS of forwarding, normal processors just > fail to > provide the necessary speed. Note that for most situations, this is > not > necessary. A heavily hacked FreeBSD system can get around 100Kpps. > Of > course at this point, you also run out of PCI bandwidth, so you've > maxed > out the rest of the hardware too. Thats right, but what we need at this moment are systems that can handle up to 20-30Kpps (4 times 100BaseT at maximum load). And that is what FreeBSD supports on good hardware. So we can run two or three T3's out of one box for 10k$ (costs at least 70k$ with cisco). -- Andre Oppermann CEO / Geschaeftsfuehrer Internet Business Solutions Ltd. (AG) Hardstrasse 235, 8005 Zurich, Switzerland Fon +41 1 277 75 75 / Fax +41 1 277 75 77 http://www.pipeline.ch ibs@pipeline.ch
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