Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 17:08:44 -0700 From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@westhill.cdrom.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freebsd.org> Cc: evanc@synapse.net (Evan Champion), hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a router Message-ID: <19942.803866124@westhill.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 22 Jun 1995 23:03:38 BST." <24502.803858618@whisker.internet-eireann.ie>
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In message <24502.803858618@whisker.internet-eireann.ie>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" w rites: >> I am looking to use FreeBSD as a router to route IP between 3 or 4 >> Ethernet segments (meaning 3 or 4 NICs). I have a PCI 486 (Asus SP3G) >> all line up for the job. The only thing I need are some NICs. >We do this all the time and have one machine currently serving 3 >ethernets without any trouble. >That said, be aware that any kind of UN*X box doesn't exactly compete >with a Cisco in terms of performance. They throw raw hardware at the >problem whereas we have to do it the hard way, in software. Make that 3 ethernets and 2 base T nets (one of them being a 100bT :-)) It's been running without problem for *41* days!! (YIPES!) Gary
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