Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:49:30 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: winter@jurai.net (Matthew N. Dodd) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards Message-ID: <199601311649.KAA07063@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960131005835.8840A-100000@sasami> from "Matthew N. Dodd" at Jan 31, 96 01:03:18 am
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> 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. :) Yes, the PC probably can't compete with the Cisco's routing-optimized architecture. I'm not sure if that just means that latency is higher or if it actually affects throughput, however. Anybody? :-) ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/546-7968
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