From owner-freebsd-isp Sat May 17 15:44:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA18228 for isp-outgoing; Sat, 17 May 1997 15:44:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from etinc.com (et-gw-fr1.etinc.com [204.141.244.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA18223 for ; Sat, 17 May 1997 15:44:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dialup-usr11.etinc.com (dialup-usr11.etinc.com [204.141.95.132]) by etinc.com (8.8.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id SAA17877 for ; Sat, 17 May 1997 18:54:24 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970517183820.00686aa8@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 18:38:30 -0400 To: isp@freebsd.org From: dennis Subject: Re: interface card to connect 64k..256k to connect to internet Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 02:46 PM 5/17/97 -0700, Tony Li wrote: > > >4XT1 = 4x(1.5Mbpsx2) = 12Mbps > >4 cards@12Mbps = 48Mbps > >1x 10/100 = 100Mbps > > > >Total=148Mbps. PCI can (and does) deliver up to 500Mbps. > > Of course we were talking about 4 QUAD T1 cards, but you can > do the math.... > >Dennis, look again, dude! I did. Really. ;-) oops....missed that middle line! db > >I _should_ have noted that if you have the 100BaseT in full duplex, then >it's 248Mbps. Yawn. Of course it would be rather unreasonable to expect that a box with a single ethernet would be pushing through more that the aggregate bandwidth of the serial lines, considering that you wouldn't likely be using this router for any services. That should max out the Ethernet at 48Mbs if you had no serial-serial traffic. This implies that FreeBSD would have to be able to "route" 48Mbs, which is somewhere between 10,000 and 15,000 pps. Doable, I think. db