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Date:      Sat, 24 Jun 1995 17:33:57 -0700
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        dennis@et.htp.com (dennis)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD as a router 
Message-ID:  <199506250033.RAA00202@corbin.Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 24 Jun 95 19:37:59 EDT." <199506242337.TAA21743@mail.htp.com> 

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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



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