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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!news.dacom.co.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!news.sprintlink.net!in1.uu.net!noc.near.net!news3.near.net!sol.caps.maine.edu!web.ddp.state.me.us!gatekeeper.ddp.state.me.us!isdmill From: isdmill@gatekeeper.ddp.state.me.us (David Miller) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: configuring BSD/OS to use PC as a router Date: 16 Oct 1995 17:20:03 GMT Organization: Maine State Governtment Lines: 34 Message-ID: <45u483$5ea@web.ddp.state.me.us> References: <45jaic$7hm@news.duke.edu> <bswDGFF9F.Jr9@netcom.com> <MICHAELV.95Oct14221455@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gatekeeper.ddp.state.me.us X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Michael L. VanLoon (michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com) wrote: : In article <cnordin.813701564@news.vni.net> cnordin@hq.vni.net (Craig Nordin) writes: : Is a Pentium BSDI router, with two ethernet cards and a V.35 card a more : powerful, dependable, and flexible router than a livinston IRX 111? : You can't buy anything more powerful and reliable than a Cisco 7000. : You can buy things that are substantially cheaper. ;-) : A real dedicated router that does real-time switching in hardware is : always going to be more powerful than any Unix-based router. On the : other hand, a PC running NetBSD or FreeBSD may be adequate for a small : network, and more flexible and less expensive. Cisco makes small : low-end routers as well. You'll have to decide which is the best use : of your money... Small piece of empirical testing. I was comparing firewall proxies vs routing on a pentium box. P90 with 72 MB ram, barracuda, 256K cache. One smc ISA card, one 3c509(b). Proxies gave me ~800 KB/sec at 90+% utilitization. Static routing gave me 850KBs+ - at ~3% utilitization. My conclusion was that simple local routing doesn't need a whole lot of horsepower. A note to the original poster: You might want to check out KarlBridge or tamu's Drawbridge packages. If you want fairly simple bridging, or bridging with a few filters, these would probably do th job just fine as well:) -- David Miller Usual disclaimers apply