> >would bet that if you had a dual bus system you would need less than a PII
> >600 to route 4 T3s, but I've never tried it.
>
> Depends on what else is running. Typically you have bgp and a 70K+ routing
> table, so that has an impact on horsepower.
That bites into your CPU a lot and your ram bandwidth a bit. Linux can certainly
handle a pair of 100Mbit tulip cards without trying hard and thats actually
what lan medias T3 hardware basically is for example.
I can certainly believe 4 T3's on a decent dual PCI bus box
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