Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 08:43:43 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: nathan@netrail.net (Nathan Stratton) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is the max network IO on a FreeBSD box? Message-ID: <199604121343.IAA17363@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.92.960411181443.16427B-100000@netrail.net> from "Nathan Stratton" at Apr 11, 96 06:40:56 pm
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> Hi, I am using FreeBSD boxes as routers with Emerging Tech T1 cards. I > connect them together with 10 Base T, but want to move up to 100 Meg FDDI > cards. If I put 2 cards in each router, can I shove +100 meg through a P160 > running FreeBSD? Two T1 cards? Hell, I have an ET 16-bit T1 card in a 386/40 and I can saturate the T1, as long as the packets are not allll tiny (doesn't bother me for my application). :-) You are more worried about ISA bus loading than the speed of the machine. If you're talking about 100mbit-net to 100mbit-net routing, I have heard of people running high end 486's being able to run 4 or 5 MByte/s through them, although probably in large packet "massive data transfer" type applications. I had seen some discussion about real high end performance not quite being up to par, perhaps one of the network gurus can expand upon that or tell me I'm wrong. Still, even if we hypothetically limit ourselves to 5000k/s, the difference between 1100k/s and 5000k/s is substantial, and it's cheaper to build two PC's to handle 5000k/s each than it is to buy a Cisco 7000 to handle 11000k/s. > I am also looking for any T3 cards that FreeBSD supports. Don't know of any, sorry. That could be cool though. Good luck, ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/546-7968
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