From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 9 17:03:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA21170 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 9 Jul 1997 17:03:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sand.sentex.ca (sand.sentex.ca [206.222.77.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA21160 for ; Wed, 9 Jul 1997 17:03:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gravel (gravel.sentex.ca [205.211.165.210]) by sand.sentex.ca (8.8.6/8.8.3) with SMTP id UAA10827; Wed, 9 Jul 1997 20:07:58 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.2.32.19970709200344.00b92dc0@sentex.net> X-Sender: mdtancsa@sentex.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.2 (32) Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 20:03:44 -0400 To: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: Building a multiport router out of FreeBSD Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <3.0.2.32.19970706122919.026d6320@sentex.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 07:50 AM 7/07/97 -0700, Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote: > > >On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Mike Tancsa wrote: > >We get wire speed between 4 10Mbit nets using a 486Dx2/66 with NE2000 >clone NICs and 16M of ram, so your solution should do pretty good. Thank you for your response. By wire speeds, do you mean you get both good throughput, and low latency ? We will be routing approximately 20 CIDRs right now, with a more in the future.. >At >this point, the best low-overhead PCI nics are the Intel cards. Avoid 3Com >as if your job depended on it. Thanks, I have heard the same thing. I imagine I will go with the Intel 100Mbps cards for our main backbone. ---Mike ********************************************************************** Mike Tancsa (mike@sentex.net) * To do is to be -- Nietzsche Sentex Communications Corp, * To be is to do -- Sartre Cambridge, Ontario * Do be do be do -- Sinatra (http://www.sentex.net/~mdtancsa) *