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From: tuupola@cloud9.l16.fi (Mika.J.H.Tuupola)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a router
Date: 5 May 1996 21:44:02 GMT
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Jamie Bowden (bowden@cs.odu.edu) wrote:

: The classic failing of unix boxes as a router is that the max throughput 
: is about 2mbit...it's a limit of the os...this is not just a freebsd 

	But since unix boxes are propably not used as routers by
	universities or big companies but smaller user groups as
	small bussinesses or hobbyists etc. the throughput of 2mb
	should be enough. 

	BTW. The big companies _do_ have the money to buy their
	systems from cisco :)


/MiT