From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 23 10:13:49 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA17084 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 10:13:49 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA17077 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 10:13:47 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA10845; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 10:12:47 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199506231712.KAA10845@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a router To: aledm@pavilion.co.uk (Aled Morris) Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 10:12:46 -0700 (PDT) Cc: amoss@cs.huji.ac.il, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199506231116.MAA18899@prinny.pavilion.co.uk> from "Aled Morris" at Jun 23, 95 12:16:00 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1014 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > At 02:22 AM 23/6/95, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > >I think you have miss understood. I was talking about using FreeBSD > >with 4 100BaseTX ethernet cards as a low cost router, when you compare > >that to a dedicated hardware router like a Cisco it makes us look bad. > > Not forgetting also that you can't buy 100 Mb/s Ethernet Interfaces for > Ciscos. > > (Well, you couldn't last time I looked) And right now you can only buy 1 100BaseTX Hub, and that is from Grand Junction. SMC has announced theres, but just like normal it will not be avaliable for a few months. [Someone correct me if they know of someone else *SHIPPING* hubs today, I don't want to read glossy sales lit, I want to put my hands on it and test it!] I suspect Cisco will have a 100BaseTX router on the market in about the same time frame, they usually don't lag far behind. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD