From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Nov 14 12:59:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA04989 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 12:59:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.52]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA04980 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 12:59:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (richardc@localhost) by soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA05802; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 13:00:15 -0800 Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 13:00:13 -0800 (PST) From: Veggy Vinny To: Alan Batie cc: dg@Root.COM, isp@FreeBSD.ORG, chad@gaianet.net Subject: Re: Decision in Router Purchase In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Alan Batie wrote: > > 2501 isn't that good of a router? How much does it cost for the 4000 and > > is there a AccessPC Card version of it? > > I'm a bit rusty, but my recollection is this: > > The 2501 uses a medium to low speed 68000 processor and does no "fast > switching" (i.e. the interface has a cache w/hardware to look up routes > without involving the processor, which just processes routing updates > and downloads the tables into the cache). It's a 68030. > The AccessPC card is a version of the 2501 that plugs into a PC, but > all it does is get power and save space. You still have to have a > Ethernet card in the PC and run drops from both cards to your LAN. Yep, that's true but the AccessPC card is less expensive. > The 4000M uses the same or a little faster 68000, and does do some fast > switching. The 4500 uses a 100Mhz MIPS processor, and the 4700 uses a > 133Mhz MIPS. > > I don't remember pricing on the 4000, but the 4500/4700 with ethernet > and high speed serial interfaces are something around $15K. Never seen a 4000 series before. Only the 2501, 2507 (2501 with 16 ethernet ports) and a 7010. Vince GaiaNet Corporation - Unix Networking Operations - GUS Mailing Lists Admin