Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 14:16:56 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: tli@jnx.com (Tony Li) Cc: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, dennis@etinc.com, isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: changed to: Frac T3? Message-ID: <199611182016.OAA02995@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199611182006.MAA13914@chimp.jnx.com> from "Tony Li" at Nov 18, 96 12:06:47 pm
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> Since the discussion was about how fast UNIX can route packets, Dennis is > absolutely right... > > Ah, so we should not learn anything from IOS because it's not important. > And thus we shouldn't improve the way that BSD forwarding works.... > Sheesh. No, now you're putting words in my mouth. I am simply stating that what Dennis said was correct: IOS is not particularly relevant. It is like comparing a good 100mbit Ethernet switch to a Cisco router.... they are optimized for different tasks. UNIX as a general purpose OS is not optimized the way IOS is for routing. I am not saying that FreeBSD can not learn from IOS (or maybe even vice versa, I would love to see Cisco learn how to be price competitive). If I was not interested in improvement, I would not be applying bits of pressure now and then in the form of informal benchmarks to see if someone isn't interested in improving the numbers still further. But the topic was UNIX routing. So IOS is irrelevant, as is Microsoft. Anybody who wants to make a Pentium into a DS3 capable router has my full support :-) ... JG
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