[geeks] "Enterprise"

[geeks at sunhelp.org]

bigendian at mac.com writes:

>It REALLY depends on what you want to do with it.  The core of my 
>network is a FreeBSD machine with OC-3,FDDI, FastE and 10BT 
>interfaces.  I COULD buy a cisco box to do this but it would cost me 

An OC-3 interface would be 155 Mbit ATM, right?

How powerfull a computer is required to keep up with those links,
running FreeBSD?

Obviously the configuration flexability is unmatchable, but that's
a helluva lot of data to move around...

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