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To: Steve <shovey@buffnet.net>
cc: Jim Dixon <jdd@vbc.net>, Veggy Vinny <richardc@csua.berkeley.edu>,
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Subject: Re: Decision in Router Purchase 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 06:59:18 -0800
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>On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Jim Dixon wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Veggy Vinny wrote:
>> 
>> > > Don't buy a 2501.  You can get a lot more performance for the same 
>> > > amount of money using FreeBSD and sync serial cards.
>
>I dont know why people are bashing the 2501's - with an access list
>active, my router stats on one of my T-1s has at times shown thruput very
>close the to max a T-1 one can handle going full guns.

   As long as your packets stay large.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project