Date: Sat, 24 Jun 1995 17:33:57 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: dennis@et.htp.com (dennis) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a router Message-ID: <199506250033.RAA00202@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 24 Jun 95 19:37:59 EDT." <199506242337.TAA21743@mail.htp.com>
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>>We need to get that routing performance into the 50MB/sec range and we are >>not even close. (I seem to recall about 20MB/sec, but am not sure right >>now, too many numbers floating around in my head). >> >Of course, 5mbs is the upper limit with full frame forwarding on 10mbs >media, its 50mbs (1/2 of the bandwidth) with 100mbs media. You ought to know >that. You must be talking about forwarding over the same physical network. I've been assuming that we've been talking about routing between two different physical nets - in which case any streaming protocol (like TCP) will allow you to get full 10Mbits/sec (or 100Mbits/sec) over the ethers. -DG
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