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From: Bertus Pretorius <bertus@mikom.csir.co.za>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a router
To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
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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.

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