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Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 08:31:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com>
To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
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Subject: Re: Building a multiport router out of FreeBSD
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On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Mike Tancsa wrote:

> At 07:50 AM 7/07/97 -0700, Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote:
> >
> >
> >On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> >
> 
> <Description of LAN requirements deleted>
> 
> >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..

Yes, though I forgot to mention that the machine only uses static routes,
and most of the traffic comes either to or from one of the ethernet ports.