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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD router, as good as a harware router ? Date: 8 Jan 1996 02:04:25 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4cpu39$sft@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4cof7j$59@news.mistral.co.uk> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 plaker@cybar.co.uk (Pete) writes: > If so, this is much much cheeper, why > doesn't EVERYBODY do this instead of spending a fortune on a hardware > router ? Hardware routers are trimmed to do just one thing: routing. They do it faster than a Unix machine, since they do part of the job in hardware. So if you care for speed, use them. If you care for money, pick an oldish 4 MB 386sx :), and use it. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)