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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?
> I agree with you on that. Hot swapability for various interfaces is > something routers obviously have over PC's. Hot swap PCI is old news. > True... unless going for 64 bit PCI at 66MHz... still it's obvious that > routers are designed for one simple purpose and generally have larger > backplanes to handle that. However, $ for $, even when buying used cisco gear at 80% off from dot-booms, a PC router will outperform any traditional router. > I agree a router is probably more efficient in just routing packets, but in > complex filtering or traffic manipulation/packet sniffing, a PC might have > the edge. :) Yes, ipfw/dummy is very very cool. Like, inducing a few 100 msecs of latency to folks who don't pay on time :) -- Alex Rubenstein, AR97, K2AHR, [email protected], latency, Al Reuben -- -- Net Access Corporation, 800-NET-ME-36, http://www.nac.net --
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