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To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
From: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD box as a router
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J. Greco writes....

>If you just need static routing, 8MB is plenty adequate.  If you want to
>use Gated and do BGP4, etc, you will probably need more (since I haven't
>had to start doing this myself, I don't know how much more).

a LOT! like 48Meg to hold a full table and to handle worst-case situations.

>
>The machine is a 486DX/133 with two Kingston KNE-40T's (DEC 21041) and
>one of the Emerging Technologies ET-50XX cards running a T1 CSU/DSU.
>It can saturate all its links simultaneously with bandwidth to spare...
>unless all the packets are really small.  I start seeing lost packets once
>I get into the 4000 pkts/sec range, IIRC.  It is a great router :-)
>

of course this is nothing that some extra memory wouldn't fix. But 4000pps is 
very high for a single T1.

Dennis