From: Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer <mathieu@newview.com>
To: davem@redhat.com ("David S. Miller")
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4 as a router, when is it appropriate?
Date: 05 May 2002 22:27:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xltd6wako2f.fsf@shookay.newview.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3CD28FB8.40204@elegant-software.com> <20020503.130131.67111535.davem@redhat.com>
davem@redhat.com ("David S. Miller") writes:
> From: Russell Leighton <russ@elegant-software.com>
> Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 09:25:12 -0400
>
> Could someone please tell me (or refer me to docs) on when
> using the Linux on PC hardware as a router is an appropriate
> solution and when one should consider a "real" router (e.g., Cisco)?
>
> The most heavily accessed ftp site in europe uses Linux machines
> exclusively as it's routers.
And what kind of traffic are you speaking of (I mean how much megs/teras
per day)?
--
Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer E-Mail : mathieu@newview.com
It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a
proper judge of it.
-- Oscar Wilde
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-06 2:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-03 13:25 Linux 2.4 as a router, when is it appropriate? Russell Leighton
2002-05-03 14:10 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-03 16:13 ` Hirling Endre
2002-05-03 17:51 ` George Bonser
2002-05-03 20:01 ` David S. Miller
2002-05-06 2:27 ` Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer [this message]
2002-05-06 2:18 ` David S. Miller
2002-05-06 2:34 ` Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
2002-05-06 16:49 ` Hirling Endre
2002-05-06 16:54 ` Bill Davidsen
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