From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Sep 12 17:12:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA20270 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 17:12:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from guardian.fortress.org (fortress.org [199.202.137.242] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA20256 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 17:12:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (andrew@localhost) by guardian.fortress.org (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA26842; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 20:11:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 20:11:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Webster Reply-To: andrew@pubnix.net To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org cc: IBS / Andre Oppermann Subject: Re: NAT for dialups? In-Reply-To: <34199C2E.EB342A80@pipeline.ch> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, IBS / Andre Oppermann wrote: > Richard Hodges wrote: > > > > On Fri, 12 Sep 1997 lashby@texramp.net wrote: > -snip- > > I did a quick test with ether/ether on a 486/100 with 2.2.2 It > > worked surprisingly well. I tested web, ftp, irc, news, realaudio, > > and MS file & print services. FTP pooped out around 400K/second, > > about half what it should be (CPU utilization: around 30%), but > > normal web browsing seemed as good (or better!) than before. > > I've done some FreeBSD routing performance test 2 weeks ago and figured > out that a P133 with 16Megs RAM and two 3c90x FastEthernet cards can > easy route at full (!) Ethernet speed between it. I've got about > 8-9 Megs a second (and one segment has a little bit other traffic). > That is impressive (try to calculate what a Cisco router costs...). > I'm going to make more of this routing performance test with an > controlled environment and some HSSI cards (how mutch is a SDL-T3 > card?). So all we need now is an encryption module and voila instant VPN tunnels. This would be an incredibly good feature that would cause people to think twice about full blown FW and Ciscos costing $10K and up!! Regards, Andrew Webster andrew@pubnix.net Key fingerprint = CF E8 16 B8 A6 DB E3 C9 83 E7 96 24 25 58 15 6E PubNIX Montreal Connected to the world Branche au monde P.O. Box 147 Cote Saint Luc, Quebec H4V 2Y3 tel 514.990.5911 http://www.pubnix.net fax 514.990.9443