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Date:      	Thu, 22 Jun 1995 17:42:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Evan Champion <evanc@synapse.net>, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD as a router 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.950622174040.4381C-100000@haven.uniserve.com>
In-Reply-To: <24502.803858618@whisker.internet-eireann.ie>

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On Thu, 22 Jun 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> 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?

Tom



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