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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!kithrup.com!news.Stanford.EDU!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.cais.net!nntp.uio.no!nntp-oslo.UNINETT.no!nntp-trd.UNINETT.no!not-for-mail From: sthaug@nethelp.no (Steinar Haug) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux machines as IP routers ? Date: 12 Jul 1996 07:22:20 GMT Organization: Nethelp Consulting, Trondheim, Norway Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4s4ufc$2d0@verdi.nethelp.no> References: <31dac3e1.459125@news.demon.co.uk> <836603111.21066.0@riddell.demon.co.uk> <4rk7fa$74@verdi.nethelp.no> <MPLANET.31e59572d.nin989683@news.auckland.ac.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: trane.uninett.no In-reply-to: d.nin@auckland.ac.nz's message of Fri, 12 Jul 1996 11:59:49 +1200 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.protocols.tcp-ip:46165 comp.os.linux.networking:44926 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:23366 [Daymon Nin] | > So if you have 4 available PCI slots you | > could have 16 Ethernets - and you still haven't used any ISA slots :-) | | How do you think the performance of this configuration compares to a | "real" router? Especially if you start to do packet filtering? I didn't say it would perform very well, I just claimed it was possible. I don't think a Pentium-133, for instance, running current versions of Linux or FreeBSD, can route between 16 10 Mbit/s Ethernet ports if they are all going at full speed. On the other hand, it only costs a fraction of a real router (say a Cisco 4700) with a corresponding number of Ethernet ports. If you put something like 4 to 8 Ethernet ports in a Pentium box running Linux or FreeBSD, I think it would make a very nice and cost-effective router. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no