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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoregon.edu!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!ee.und.ac.za!nntp.und.ac.za!beastie.cs.und.ac.za!harverso From: harverso@beastie.cs.und.ac.za (Tony Harverson ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a Cisco 7000? Date: 17 Sep 1995 12:36:05 GMT Organization: University of Natal (Durban), South Africa Lines: 28 Message-ID: <43h4nl$q3c@owl.und.ac.za> References: <43dicb$c40@sundog.tiac.net> <MICHAELV.95Sep16004634@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: beastie.cs.und.ac.za X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Michael L. VanLoon (michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com) wrote: : In article <43dicb$c40@sundog.tiac.net> dana@millenium.tiac.net (Dana Basken) writes: : I've been looking for information on making a FreeBSD box into a T1 router, : I would assume with multiple V.35 cards and an advanced routing daemon. Has : anyone tried this? Success stories, horror stories, I'd like to here them! : As great as FreeBSD and NetBSD are, a T1 connection and some V.35 : cards does not a Cisco 7000 make! Those 7000's are hellishly fast : real-time switches, with multi-hundred megabyte bandwidth data busses. : Now, you might be able to make a pretty fine router out of a *BSD box, : but it will not be a Cisco 7000. :-) A little off topic.. but what are the recommended cards for highest throughput in a freebsd box (10mb or 100mb) ? 3coms seem to have the reutation thing down, But which of these operates the fastest ? (I have a FreeBSD box routing and firewalling and I want to make sure it runs as fast as possible) Tony -- ~~~|~~~ aka: Tony Harverson - the #za Stalker | rog = harverso@beastie.cs.und.ac.za "...Let us die young or let us live forever/We Don't have the power but we never say never.." - Alphaville