Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 10:03:18 -0500 From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) To: Tony Li <tli@jnx.com> Cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: changed to: Frac T3? Message-ID: <199611191503.KAA06885@etinc.com>
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> > Yes but it depends on what kind of router it is. ISPs arent the only ones > using routers these days....for the corporate environment where traffic > is relatively light, the ability to do other stuff is a big win. > >I'm not sure if you meant to imply that all corporate environments have >light traffic loads. Let me be the first to assure you that it's NOT the >case. Let me also point out that the corporate environment is the last >place where you want to risk an unnecessary outage and the place where you >really can afford more systems. Certainly large corporations have heavy traffic loads (although they tend to be largely mondirectional), but in terms of numbers the vast majority of web sites are well under capacity.....WELL under. While Microsoft and Sony obviously need serious bandwidth utilization, most companies have much lighter usage. We're not really concerned with "outages" here, its routing load, which at T1 simply isnt an issue for a low powered pentium running freebsd and a busy web and mail server. If you're implication is that a 2501 and an NT server is somehow more reliable than a freebsd box with a card, I think you'll bet a lot of disagreement on this list. Dennis
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