Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 21:19:16 +0300 From: Amos Shapira <amoss@cs.huji.ac.il> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers Mailing List) Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a router Message-ID: <199506231819.AA06409@picton.cs.huji.ac.il> In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 23 Jun 1995 02:22:12 -0700 (PDT) . <199506230922.CAA10097@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
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"Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> wrote: |I think you have miss understood. I was talking about using FreeBSD |with 4 100BaseTX ethernet cards as a low cost router, when you compare |that to a dedicated hardware router like a Cisco it makes us look bad. | |But then compare any general purpose computer being used as a router |to the dedicated CPU per NIC + special NIC and all sorts of other fun |and games that go on in a real router and they all look bad. Well, then. Looks like I wasn't specific in my question. I used to work with Cisco in the past and I'm aware that they are very fast in handling network traffic and there is no chance a configuration such as what FreeBSD can run on will ever compare to these bewdy of boxes (they can hang about 6 ethers, if I remember right, on the same card, not even passing packets on the special internal bus!) What I *did* have in mind while I wrote the previous message was the report of the Checkpoint company (the authors of Firewall-1, whos owner used to work one building away from where I sit right now) that their filtering package, running under Solaris between two Ethernet 10baseT (?) LAN's didn't affect the speed of routing. (I'm planning to add such functionalities to the firewall package available on FreeBSD once I get to it). I've just read on one of the others reponses that BSD is about as best as you can get on software-based routing. That's what I wanted to hear. Cheers, --Amos --Amos Shapira | "Of course Australia was marked for 133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st. | glory, for its people had been chosen Jerusalem 93 805 | by the finest judges in England." ISRAEL amoss@cs.huji.ac.il | -- Anonymous
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