Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 15:04:47 +0200 (MET DST) From: wjw@iae.nl (Willem Jan Withagen) To: rowan@sensation.net.au Cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd used in routers? Message-ID: <19990407130447.D33D494CA@surf.iae.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9904051740390.23899-100000@velvet.sensation.net.au>
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In article <Pine.BSF.4.01.9904051740390.23899-100000@velvet.sensation.net.au> you write: >How many of you are using FreeBSD PCs as reasonably high end routers (say >512kbit/sec+)? What made you choose this solution and what problems did >you face? What sort of hardware are you using? We have several heavy-duty routers, which do more than their share of work. They even route traffic at 1320KBYTE/sec (> 10Mbit/sec), while running gated with BGP. They have something like 5 100Mb interfaces. (running on a PII-350, with 128Mb RAM) One of the routers was up for more than a year before we needed to reboot for maintenace purposes. So for 512Kbit/sec it would be more than sufficient, I think. >How do you think the "closed system" of commercial embedded routers >compares with an open source system like FreeBSD/pppd/ipfw/gated? You have the sources! and there free. Unlike Cisco's --WjW -- Internet Access Eindhoven BV., voice: +31-40-2 393 393, data: +31-40-2 606 606 P.O. 928, 5600 AX Eindhoven, The Netherlands Full Internet connectivity for only fl 9.95 a month. Call now, and login as 'new'. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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