Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 08:40:45 +0200 (SAT) From: Bertus Pretorius <bertus@mikom.csir.co.za> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: tom@uniserve.com, jkh@freebsd.org, evanc@synapse.net, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a router Message-ID: <199506230640.IAA05762@dolphin.mikom.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <199506230120.KAA27588@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Jun 23, 95 10:50:41 am
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> > Tom Samplonius stands accused of saying: > > > 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? > > Latency. The ability to receive and transmit continually on all ports. > > As jordan said, router manufacturers throw _serious_ hardware at their > designs; most of them are built around special-purpose backplanes with > considerably more bandwidth than PCI. They usually have one CPU per > interface, and a couple more running the show. > > > Tom > I agree with this statement. We use FreeBSD as a boundry router (encrypting and firewalling) and works like a carm. We are also working on a FreeBSD Ver 2.0.5 specific SNMP to be available shortly. -- +-Bertus Pretorius------------ (O) (O) ---------------bertus@mikom.csir.co.za-+ | mikomtek ^ +27 12 841-3001 (Voice) | | CSIR \___/ +27 12 841-4720 (FAX) | +-----------------A smile is the same in all languages------------------------+
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