From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 20 04:13:54 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6971E16A41B for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 04:13:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from iaccounts@ibctech.ca) Received: from pearl.ibctech.ca (pearl.ibctech.ca [208.70.104.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6BAA13C4A7 for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 04:13:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from iaccounts@ibctech.ca) Received: (qmail 88821 invoked by uid 1002); 20 Sep 2007 04:13:53 -0000 Received: from iaccounts@ibctech.ca by pearl.ibctech.ca by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.22 (spamassassin: 2.64. Clear:RC:1(208.70.104.100):. Processed in 11.268814 secs); 20 Sep 2007 04:13:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.30.110?) (steve@ibctech.ca@208.70.104.100) by pearl.ibctech.ca with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 20 Sep 2007 04:13:41 -0000 Message-ID: <46F1F376.3020609@ibctech.ca> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:13:42 -0400 From: Steve Bertrand User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Julian Elischer References: <46F1AC0B.9040109@ibctech.ca> <46F1BDE1.8090102@gmail.com> <46F1E900.7070604@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <46F1E900.7070604@elischer.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: mattr@eagle.ca, freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Sten Daniel Soersdal Subject: Re: Quagga as border router X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 04:13:54 -0000 >>> Essentially, I'd like a board with at *least* 6 PCI-X slots, and perhaps >>> 8 RAM slots (if I can find justification that my router will work better >>> with up to 16GB of memory). > > Why would you go with PCI-X? it's slow and getting end-of life.. > > go for PCI-Express. > there are quad PCI-E gigabit cards available. > Much lower packet latency. As per my last email to Sten and the list... I'm not a hardware person. PCI-E, PCI-X, I don't know the difference. It was assumed that others would understand what I wanted and be able to make recommendations to me, and correct me on my terminology. All I do know is that there is something more than ISA slots, and 386's now ;) My request wasn't for clarification on motherboard technicalities, it was essentially a request on a recommendation for a hardware/software platform based on FreeBSD, that could possibly replace a Cisco 7206-VXR based on the NPE-G2 processing engine (or equivalent). Steve