From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Feb 5 00:56:41 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA18210 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 00:56:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mel.alcatel.fr (mel.alcatel.fr [212.208.74.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA18204 for ; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 00:56:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr) Received: from aifhs2.alcatel.fr (mailhub.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.80]) by mel.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id JAA05497; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 09:55:32 +0100 Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id JAA03041; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 09:53:27 +0100 (MET) Received: from telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id JAA20730; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 09:37:10 +0100 (MET) Received: from telspace.alcatel.fr (nairobi.telspace.alcatel.fr) by telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA05242; Fri, 5 Feb 99 09:45:07 +0100 Message-Id: <36BAB0B3.AE09E6F3@telspace.alcatel.fr> Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 09:49:55 +0100 From: HERBELOT Thierry Organization: Alcatel Telspace X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Jim Shankland Cc: tim@iafrica.com.na, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Info for newbie References: <199902041930.LAA23079@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jim Shankland wrote: > > > FreeBSD works fine for routing between Ethernet segments, but my > > experiance is that you will be happier with a router for WAN links. Hello, I would agree with the above statement : as long as routing inside the kernel uses only one route for each destination and there is no real-time monitoring of the operational status of this route, there may be times when when you lose connection to the destination and have to wait for GateD to update the kernel's routing tables. So, FreeBSD can be working as a WAN router (most likely at one extremity of a point-to-point link), but I wouldn't use one as a full-function router (nevertheless FreeBSD is the basis for Juniper Network's mega router - see http://www.juniper.net/). TfH > > The archives threaten to overflow with "router vs. sync. card" > wars past, so I'll just note that there is no consensus on the > above statement. Personally, I've got FreeBSD driving ... umm ... > I guess 7 T-1 links at various sites now, and I'm happy. > > Jim Shankland > NLynx Systems, Inc. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message