From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jan 4 8: 9:47 2001 From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 4 08:09:44 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [207.252.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EEA537B400 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 08:09:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from dbsys.etinc.com (dbsys.etinc.com [207.252.1.18]) by etinc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA29300; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 11:15:19 GMT (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20010104111052.025ee680@mail.etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@mail.etinc.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 11:15:47 -0500 To: bv@wjv.com, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG From: Dennis Subject: Re: 2 cisco's and a fbsd box running bgp In-Reply-To: <20010103202022.A60418@wjv.com> References: <3A53AEA4.1C9E3A30@quake.com.au> <3A53AEA4.1C9E3A30@quake.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 08:20 PM 01/03/2001, Bill Vermillion wrote: >On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 09:58:44AM +1100, Kal Torak thus spoke: > > > I had seen the Adaptec board a few places, but it's expensive and I am > > > sick of Adaptec lately. > > > I agree with you, but I would also have to say the Adaptec Quad > > ethernet card is probably the best on the market atm... Its > > 64-bit, the others I have seen are all 32... > >Then you have to have a motherboard which supports 64 bit. More >added expense. Well its an extra few $100., versus paying 75K for a cisco 7xxx series. You do the math. A dual bus 64-bit MB has 5 Gigabits of bus bandwidth (vs 1Gb on a standard MB). Its a nice solution, particularly if you want to run say 4-8 ethernets and 4 T3 HSSIs or 12 T1s. Dennis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message