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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: davidg@Root.COM, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a router
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>I would like to quantify that ``fairly small these days''.  AMD DX2/66 CPU
>...
>So it looks like $280 vs $720.  I would call that ``significant'' amount

That's still small compared with total system cost.

>of money.  Also since this is probably going to be highly memory speed
>dependent I suspect an ASUS PCI/I-486SP3G (PCI) could route packets just
>about as fast as an ASUS PCI/I-P54TP4 due to the fact that thier main memory
>speeds are *very* close.  (Note the ASUS 486SP3G costs as much as the

I think to have any chance of handling n * 100Mbps you would have to lock
all the code and data into a cache, preferably the CPU cache.  This wouldn't
be easy in a general purpose system.

Bruce