[geeks] "Enterprise"

[Phil Brutsche]

On Mon, 2001-10-01 at 19:19, dave at cca.org wrote:
> 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?

It's gotta have a 32bit/66MHz bus or a 64bit/33MHz PCI bus.  Minimum. 
That OC-3 blows the theoretical max of a 32bit/33MHz PCI bus out of the
water.  That's *before* you hit the FDDI & ethernet connections.

I bet a mid-range PII or Athlon could do it.  The memory bus speed
limitation would be a killer, though.

-- 

Phil