Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 10:50:41 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: tom@uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius) Cc: jkh@freebsd.org, evanc@synapse.net, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a router Message-ID: <199506230120.KAA27588@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950622174040.4381C-100000@haven.uniserve.com> from "Tom Samplonius" at Jun 22, 95 05:42:08 pm
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Tom Samplonius stands accused of saying: > > 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. > > The bottleneck certainly can't be in the CPU can it? Where is the > bottleneck with PCI and a good 486 motherboard? Latency. The ability to receive and transmit continually on all ports. As jordan said, router manufacturers throw _serious_ hardware at their designs; most of them are built around special-purpose backplanes with considerably more bandwidth than PCI. They usually have one CPU per interface, and a couple more running the show. > Tom -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[
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