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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!EU.net!uunet!fonorola!infoshare!whome!druid.com!darcy From: darcy@druid.com (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD act as a SLIP router/gateway for a subnet? Message-ID: <Czq30s.HuG@druid.com> Lines: 10 Organization: Planix, Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 940826BETA PL0] References: <mark.1261.2EC9193C@novell.business.uwo.ca> <JKH.94Nov15195531@freefall.cdrom.com> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 1994 13:34:03 GMT Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@freefall.cdrom.com) wrote: : In article <mark.1261.2EC9193C@novell.business.uwo.ca> mark@novell.business.uwo.ca writes: : If they setup a FreeBSD machine at their site, can it act as a router via SLIP? : Yes. I do this all the time, albeit with ppp but there's no difference : either way from the router's point of view. Have you got some numbers? In particular how does the interrupt latency affect the throughput? -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain (darcy@druid.com) | Planix, Inc. | Democracy is three wolves and a Toronto, Ontario, Canada | sheep voting on what's for dinner. +1 416 424 2871 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) |