From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 30 23:05:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA23868 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 23:05:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (root@sasami.jurai.net [205.218.122.51]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA23863 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 23:04:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (from winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) id BAA11888; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 01:03:19 -0600 Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 01:03:18 -0600 (CST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" X-Sender: winter@sasami To: mailing list account cc: Joe Greco , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards In-Reply-To: <199601310055.SAA01710@argus.flash.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 30 Jan 1996, mailing list account wrote: > now here is a cost cutting idea: does anyone know how well freebsd stacks > against say a cisco 2500 series router? cisco 4000? cisco 4500? say using > a p5-100? p5-166? >From what I have seen gated will do just about anything a cisco will (IP that is). However, the cisco boxes have high speed route processors and other things that the PC can't compete with. I am going to be getting a FreeBSD ethernet router box together using a few multiport de21x4x based cards. The ipfw stuff should make for a good firewall/filter box. :) | Matthew N. Dodd | winter@jurai.net | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | | Technical Manager | mdodd@intersurf.net | http://www.intersurf.net | | InterSurf Online | "Welcome to the net Sir, would you like a handbasket?"|