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From: mw@theatre.pandora.sax.de (Martin Welk)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD router, as good as a harware router ?
Organization: Private Site, Member of Individual Network e. V.
Message-ID: <DKzC5F.9vA@theatre.pandora.sax.de>
References: <4cof7j$59@news.mistral.co.uk> <4cpu39$sft@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 19:15:15 GMT
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In article <4cpu39$sft@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
>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.
Hmm... May I still continue using my 3 MB 386DX-20 machine running
FreeBSD-2.0.5-RELEASE as an Ethernet/serial line router? :-)
And believe me, if this machine should do something more than route,
it is sloooooooow... (The swap space is on a MFM/ST506 drive, /usr is
mounted via NFS as it's faster than using a local disk.)
But: it work's properly for my purpose, and it's even fast enough.
(For now, the last time between two reboots was about 39 days.)
Bye,
Martin
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