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From: darcy@druid.com (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD act as a SLIP router/gateway for a subnet?
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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?

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