Date: Mon, 07 Jul 1997 12:58:17 -0500 From: "Samuel D. Brown" <escher@ddyne.com> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Building a multiport router out of FreeBSD Message-ID: <33C12E39.C82A274C@ddyne.com> References: <3.0.2.32.19970706122919.026d6320@sentex.net>
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Mike Tancsa wrote:
> Hi,
> We are going to be upping our connection to the net to 5Mbps
> in the near
> future. Our upstream provider is going to provide us with a managed
> CISCO
> that we will have no access to unfortunately. Since we have fairly
> complex
> routing requirements, we need some sort of multi port router in the
> office.
> Considering I can build a Pentium 133 with a 4 Ethernet cards for
> around
> $1200 Canadian (~$800 USD), this is significantly cheaper and in some
> ways
My experience with using FreeBSD as a dedicated router is that while
it works like a charm, is trouble free and easy to configure, there
remain human-noticable slow downs in transmission introduced by the box,
even at low loads. If performance is important to you, and if you have
the money to spare, going with a hardware dedicated routing product will
give you distinctly better performance.
S.
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