From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 14 11:40:25 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2DE837B401 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 11:40:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp1.knology.net (smtp1.knology.net [24.214.63.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F319D43FDD for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 11:40:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@HiWAAY.net) Received: (qmail 13148 invoked from network); 14 Aug 2003 18:40:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO user-24-214-34-52.knology.net) (24.214.34.52) by smtp1.knology.net with SMTP; 14 Aug 2003 18:40:24 -0000 From: David Kelly To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 13:40:23 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <1060871994.5979.12.camel@alexandria> <3F3BA35D.9090800@rtl.org> In-Reply-To: <3F3BA35D.9090800@rtl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308141340.23316.dkelly@HiWAAY.net> Subject: Re: FreeBSD as router - performance vs hardware routers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 18:40:26 -0000 On Thursday 14 August 2003 09:57 am, Jason Stewart wrote: > I've even heard of people using 486's as firewalls, but havent tried > it myself. Many of the SOHO routers use 486-system-on-chip solutions. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.