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From: dcrocker@twg.COM (Dave Crocker)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re:  Dedicated IP Router
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Date: 15 Jul 88 15:07:00 GMT
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WIN/ROUTE is a recently-announced product from Wollongong.  It turns a
PC into a dedicated IP router with up to 3 interfaces.

SLIP is not in the current release but is operational and will be in
the next release.  Addition of drivers to the product is simple enough
that we could probably be talked into allowing controlled release of the
SLIP interface prior to the next "official" release of the product.

The new version of the product also will allow many more interfaces.
(Somewhere between 8 and infinity seems to be the range.  No doubt the
real limiting factor will turn out to be the number of card slots your
box provides.)

Performance of the router correlates directly with the speed of the processor
and represents an almost straight-line tradeoff of price-performace, when
compared against the $10,000 / 1-1500 pkt/sec IP routers.

A turbo XT represents an amazingly cost-beneficial base, given the 8Mhz
clock speed and ridiculously low purchase prices -- you will spend more
for your ethernet cards, for an ether-to-ether relay.

Dave Crocker
VP, Engineering
The Wollongong Group