[16642] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Core router bakeoff?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Thu May 7 23:02:40 1998
To: Andrew Bangs <andrewb@demon.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 08 May 1998 02:10:53 BST."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 21:46:41 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Andrew Bangs writes:
> We're also having reasonable success with some of the 4-port ZNYX
> ethernet cards.
>
> It's a solution that works so long as you don't want/need all the
> ethernets running at wire speed, and you're prepared to learn how
> GateD works. :)
BTW, we are managing to get NetBSD to handle multiple ethernets at
wire speed now that NetBSD-current has (still experimental) flow cache
code in it. I'm expecting that when this stabilizes it is going to
improve the *BSD situation even more.
Perry
