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From: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD box as a router
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>Hi all!
>
>I wonder if somebody did real testing of FreeBSD box with, let's say, two 
>Ethernets and one 2M serial card (or some other hw with equivalent 
>bandwidth), which would act as a router, using e.g. Gated. How well it 
>behaves under heavy traffic? How many packets get dropped/ignored/else?
>How much memory it requires? How much swap? What is *real* throughput of 
>such a beast? etc...

The most I know of is 5 T1 (2 frame relay, 3 PTP), 2 ethers (one of which is
100Mbs). 

Dropped packets? Please!

Is gives as good performance as any router on the market. That
includes the big-boys.

Dennis