From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 9 17:10:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA21748 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 9 Jul 1997 17:10:30 -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 RAA21739 for ; Wed, 9 Jul 1997 17:10:27 -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 UAA11009; Wed, 9 Jul 1997 20:14:57 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.2.32.19970709201045.00ba34e0@sentex.net> X-Sender: mdtancsa@sentex.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.2 (32) Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 20:10:45 -0400 To: escher@ddyne.com From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: Building a multiport router out of FreeBSD Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <33C12E39.C82A274C@ddyne.com> 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 > My experience with using FreeBSD as a dedicated router is that while >it works like a charm, is trouble free and easy to configure, there >remain human-noticable slow downs in transmission introduced by the box, >even at low loads. Hi, Thanks for the response. >If performance is important to you Yes. > and if you have the money to spare, No :-( >going with a hardware dedicated routing product will give you distinctly >better performance. Hmmm... I was afraid of that. I guess the other alternative would be to put it all on the same logical network and use a switching HUB... Although the price of that is still a little high, its more reasonable than a dedicated multiport router. ---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) *