From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 2 11:59:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D93DE158F3 for ; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 11:59:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA16376; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 11:58:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 11:58:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: "O'Connell" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a Dedicated Router In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > On Mon, 31 May 1999, Doug White wrote: > > > On Fri, 28 May 1999, O'Connell wrote: > > > > > FAQ 160 alludes to deficiencies of FreeBSD as a dedicated LAN router in > > > terms of good engineering practice and compliance with Internet standards. > > > > I'm not sure about the standards compliance bit, but the good engineering > > bit is good -- the PC architecture doesn't have the bandwidth to handle > > the kind of data routers normally see. Plus, you can't hot-swap > > components. > > > > I wouldn't suggest it for a core router, but for a small office router on > > up it should be OK. > > I've seen some supposedly hot swappable PCI boards, but they were > external, meaning you had to have the case open and a board with a > cable plugged into the pci motherboard.... > > Have you heard of anything built in such a way to make real > hot-swappable PCI a possibility? Yes, it's called CompactPCI. You won't find this on a generic PC though. Some of our routers are Intel/CPCI based. Future bus technologies will make this sort of thing much safer. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message