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From: "Richard E. Nickle" <rick@trystero.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD act as a SLIP router/gateway for a subnet?
Date: 28 Nov 1994 18:56:29 GMT
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darcy@druid.com (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) wrote:

> Have you got some numbers?  In particular how does the interrupt latency
> affect the throughput?

I have a 486DX2/66 running FreeBSD 2.0 as my router/gateway,
it's serving another Unix box and three OS/2 boxes. 

With two 28.8Kb USR Sportster V.FC for the PPP connection,
I get about 120-130ms pings on the router, and about 120-130ms on
the secondary machines (over ethernet).

I think the latency is too small to be accurately measured, but
I'd still put it at 3-5ms.

Sound good enough?

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