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On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 11:10:49PM +0200, Eivind Hestnes wrote:
> It sounds sensible, but I have also learned that throwing hardware on a 
> problem is not always right.. Compared to shiny boxes from Cisco, HP 
> etc. a 500 Mhz router is for heavy duty networks. I would try some more 
> tweaking before replacing the box with some more spectular hardware.

you've confused commodity CPUs with special purpose hardware.

alternatively, 'heavy duty networks' is a relative term.

-- bill fumerola