From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 31 12:39:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA08066 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 12:39:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [165.254.13.209]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA08040 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 12:38:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from ppp-082.etinc.com (ppp-082.etinc.com [204.141.95.142]) by etinc.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA17346 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 15:38:23 -0500 Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 15:38:23 -0500 Message-Id: <199601312038.PAA17346@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: hackers@freebsd.org From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Subject: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards 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? :-) We have customers running Pentiums with multiple T1s and 100bt ethernet as 4??? replacements with much luck. Forget about a 2500 series as a comparision as its slower than a 486/40 with 1 t1...The processing power of a Pentium 100/120/133 yields better results when extensive processing (filtering, etc) is present...I havent hear any complaints about it being slower than a 4000 or 4500....and its less than half the price. The 7000 is a whole 'nother ball of wax...as its designed as a hub/switch for which a PC just isnt appropriate. The big issue with many is that you need to get a high-end cisco to do many things. To pay $8000 or $12000 for a 4 line T1 router is absurd (I dont know the actual number here so please dont beat me up....but there are ]apparently a lot of "extras" and memory requirement to do real, multi-homed routing). dennis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25 for BSD/OS, FreeBSD and LINUX