Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 08:46:27 -0700 From: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV (Bruce A. Mah) To: Arabian <Arabian@DAL.NET> Cc: bmah@california.sandia.gov, net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Routers and such Message-ID: <199906071546.IAA05315@stennis.ca.sandia.gov> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 04 Jun 1999 19:30:38 %2B0300." <3.0.6.32.19990604193038.007caa00@qatar.net.qa>
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--==_Exmh_-1564999985P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Arabian wrote: > >Without some more details, it's difficult to answer your question. For > example, >what kind of services are you providing? > > I'm runing an IRC server. > > >Where are the clients? > > IRC users. What I was getting at here was that if the clients are far away, network-wise, that the latency added by an extra hop through a router is probably negligible by comparison. (We're talking something on the order of a millisecond or so here, assuming that your situation isn't pathologically bad.) > >Are the networks 10Mbps or 100Mbps? > > 100 Mpbs Full Duplex. > > >Is the router doing anything other than routing packets? > > Just routing packets, and as firewall to proect the server connected to it > from attacks ICMPs ...etc. I asked this to see if the router is heavily loaded. Sounds like it's not. > There is no performance problem actually, I just wanted to make sure I wont > have it on the future, avoiding the problem before it happenes better than > solving it after problems jumped. :) OK. It sounds to me like you're doing OK with what you've got. I'm sure someone else will correct me if there's reason to believe otherwise. Bruce. --==_Exmh_-1564999985P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBN1vpUqjOOi0j7CY9AQEdrAP/dVwNSHc3ZWstFX1gpG05eLVv3NfKQJzI oQ6f4ejcq/JGb8lUvKxUUUyiM0ipKJIfJl03+yLPVhZuTrDlhIv1VrEemAvy/hI0 FPJP4RDkuOpn/HBstquUZwqls1o/TfJbnRyi4LwpHCONemAHeGJ+FeaD9Ey+24ZF l1phjlFaK3s= =LRjn -----END PGP MESSAGE----- --==_Exmh_-1564999985P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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