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Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>,
	"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>,
	Matthew Donovan <kitche@kitchetech.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: RE: FreeBSD based router ...
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>>
>
> They are very expensive.
>
> A Juniper is not based on FreeBSD.  It uses FreeBSD as the
> control interface.  The actual routing happens in specialized
> ASICS that Juniper custom-builds.

good for multiple gigabits traffic or more. for lower speed - not worth 
of.