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From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD router, as good as a harware router ?
Date: 18 Jan 1996 07:35:00 GMT
Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes.
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References: <4cof7j$59@news.mistral.co.uk> <4cpu39$sft@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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In-reply-to: blume_h@slbh03.bln.sel.alcatel.de's message of 16 Jan 1996 16:41:33 +0100
In article <k8d98kgn9t.fsf@slbh03.bln.sel.alcatel.de> blume_h@slbh03.bln.sel.alcatel.de (H. Blume von Contributed) writes:
interestingly, ANS seems to use IBM RS6000 with some gated as routers
for two to three 45Mbps plus FDDI interfaces.
http://www.ans.net/ABOUTNETWORKMAP.HTML
And, they had nothing but problems with them for at least the first
year. I'm still not sure if they're perfectly stable.
I'm guessing the reason that they had to, though, is that the routing
software for the Internet backbone is so complex, that a simple
hardware router wouldn't provide it or run it.
It still doesn't change the fact that a good hardware router can not
be touched in speed by a machine routing in software. A machine
routing in software can be cheaper, but not faster.
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Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com
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