From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 31 08:51:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA15742 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 08:51:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.109.160]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA15731 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 08:51:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id KAA07063; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:49:31 -0600 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199601311649.KAA07063@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards To: winter@jurai.net (Matthew N. Dodd) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:49:30 -0600 (CST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Matthew N. Dodd" at Jan 31, 96 01:03:18 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text 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. :) 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