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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!fox.almaden.ibm.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!salliemae!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!demos!news.spb.su!news.eunet.fi!news.csc.fi!news.funet.fi!news.cs.hut.fi!news.clinet.fi!cloud9.l16.fi!tuupola From: tuupola@cloud9.l16.fi (Mika.J.H.Tuupola) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a router Date: 5 May 1996 21:44:02 GMT Organization: Clinet, Espoo, Finland. Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4mj7f2$mno@news.clinet.fi> References: <4lfm8j$kn3@nuscc.nus.sg> <317CAABE.7DE14518@FreeBSD.org> <4lt098$erq@itchy.serv.net> <Pine.SUN.3.90.960427140735.3161C-100000@tulip.cs.odu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cloud9.l16.fi X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Jamie Bowden (bowden@cs.odu.edu) wrote: : The classic failing of unix boxes as a router is that the max throughput : is about 2mbit...it's a limit of the os...this is not just a freebsd But since unix boxes are propably not used as routers by universities or big companies but smaller user groups as small bussinesses or hobbyists etc. the throughput of 2mb should be enough. BTW. The big companies _do_ have the money to buy their systems from cisco :) /MiT