From owner-freebsd-atm Mon Mar 2 16:10:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA25249 for freebsd-atm-outgoing; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 16:10:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-atm@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shellz.Malicia.com (reddawg@shellz.malicia.com [209.54.66.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA25241 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 16:10:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from reddawg@shellz.Malicia.com) Received: from localhost (reddawg@localhost) by shellz.Malicia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA24234; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 19:24:34 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from reddawg@shellz.Malicia.com) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 19:24:34 -0500 (EST) From: Christopher To: Kenjiro Cho cc: freebsd-atm@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATM In-Reply-To: <199803020500.NAA13598@hotaka.csl.sony.co.jp> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-atm@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org wich do you prefer a pentium pro or pentium two to do routing? On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Kenjiro Cho wrote: > > >> What hard should i use to run multink atm for dual oc3's Someone recomend > >> me to use a ppro200 with 512k cash and viking ram and an intel motherboard > >> with an atm card from efficient, was i recomend the right stuff or should > >> i use something different and will running SMP work any better for atm > >> then a single proccessor? > > When using the supported ATM cards (ENI or Adaptec), the bottleneck is > not processor power but memory access speed. So, faster CPU or SMP > won't help much. > > If your machine will be used as a router, Pentium-II/200 with 440LX or > PPro/200/256K with 440FX will be enough to handle dual 155M ATM. > If you run applications on the machine, get faster CPU. > > Regarding ATM cards, Adaptec card is much simpler from the driver's > point of view, but I don't see much difference in performance. > > --kj > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-atm" in the body of the message