From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Oct 23 15:42:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA03314 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 15:42:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp) Received: from freefall.pipeline.ch (intranet.pipeline.ch [195.134.128.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA03304 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 15:42:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andre@pipeline.ch) Received: from opi ([195.134.128.41]) by freefall.pipeline.ch (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with ESMTP id AAA8345 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 00:40:34 +0200 Message-ID: <344FD288.7F856AB5@pipeline.ch> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 00:41:12 +0200 From: "IBS / Andre Oppermann" Organization: Internet Business Solutions Ltd. (AG) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Routing thru a FreeBSD? X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: <344F4A11.353C51DE@cablenet.net> <82iuuoi1xu.fsf@chimp.juniper.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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