Date: Sun, 25 Jun 1995 07:46:02 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: davidg@Root.COM, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, nc@ai.net Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a router Message-ID: <199506242146.HAA02005@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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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
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