Re: Performance Tests Cisco 2514 and Pentium 166/400

[Alan Cox]

> built on a PC with hard disks, x86 CPU's (x86 would be the most common
> used, I'm sure), and off the shelf nic's is not. I'm certain any person
> responsible for a large corporate infrastructure would sooner rely on a
> product designed to perform routing functions. 

You've forgotten something important. Commodity pricing

An x86 is the wrong hammer, but its such a large cheap hammer that it
doesnt matter.

Right now you need fancy stuff for Gbit ethernet but for 100Mbit lans a PC
is a fine router

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