Router

From: Kevin Brown (-NOSPAM-itismekevinb-NOSPAM-_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/28/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:31:52 -0600

Hello all,

I am wondering what sort of experience anyone has had with Linux running
  a mission critical router? From experience, do you feel that it has
the ability to route a DS-3 at wire speeds with very minimal to no
packet filtering enabled? The hardware the router would run is a
Celeron 2.6GHz w/ 256MB of RAM, a wanPCI-1T3 for the DS-3 and an Intel
Pro network card.

Not to start a flame war, but for routing, are the BSDs quicker, or are
Linux and the BSDs very similar in speeds when it comes routing?

Thanks in adance,
Kevin Brown.