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To: dennis@et.htp.com (dennis)
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a router 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Sat, 24 Jun 1995 17:33:57 -0700
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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