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I doubt it. Unless there is specialized hardware involved.
cisco and others have invested heavily in 'silicon switching'.
there are more layer 3 ethernet switches out there.

I think FreeBSD is an excellent solution for most things, but
a good Cisco router will really perform.

On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Nicolai Petri wrote:

> 
> Is it possible to setup a FreeBSD to make highperformance routing between 2
> 100Mbit Nets ???? Could it be as fast as Cisco IOS???
> 
> Bye,
>      Nicolai Petri
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>