Now I know a lot of people are going to jump on me for raising the latency question here, and I don't want to inflate its importance at all. Latency in a router is only somewhat important for most network applications but on some applications it has a very serious effect. If anyone would like to flame me, please do it in private email and I am sure I will find the time to get back to you :). How does the latency through a Gigarouter compare to the latency of say a NetBSD or FreeBSD box with (say) FDDI interfaces. [Ignoring the fact that most BSD boxes are running on a single PCI bus]. Basically I am curious how much advantage/disadvantage one gets by going from a Cisco to a Gigarouter solution based on issues like latency. I am sure the difference we are talking about is very slight and <2ms total, I just want to get an idea and I don't trust most of the technical sales personnel I have talked to to get a straight answer. I am very familiar with the latency of BSD (typical) boxes and those of Cisco Routers. Thanks, -Deepak.