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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com>
To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a router 
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On Thu, 22 Jun 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> That said, be aware that any kind of UN*X box doesn't exactly compete
> with a Cisco in terms of performance.  They throw raw hardware at the
> problem whereas we have to do it the hard way, in software.

  The bottleneck certainly can't be in the CPU can it?  Where is the 
bottleneck with PCI and a good 486 motherboard?

Tom