From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jan 4 8:45:16 2001 From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 4 08:45:14 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from bilver.wjv.com (dhcp-1-186.n01.orldfl01.us.ra.verio.net [157.238.210.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9442F37B400 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 08:45:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bill@localhost) by bilver.wjv.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA66820 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 11:45:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bill) Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 11:44:56 -0500 From: Bill Vermillion To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2 cisco's and a fbsd box running bgp Message-ID: <20010104114456.A66792@wjv.com> Reply-To: bv@bilver.wjv.com References: <3A53AEA4.1C9E3A30@quake.com.au> <3A53AEA4.1C9E3A30@quake.com.au> <20010103202022.A60418@wjv.com> <5.0.0.25.0.20010104111052.025ee680@mail.etinc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.0.20010104111052.025ee680@mail.etinc.com>; from dennis@etinc.com on Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 11:15:47AM -0500 Organization: W.J.Vermillion / Orlando - Winter Park Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 11:15:47AM -0500, Dennis thus spoke: > 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. Well that is a cheaper route, but 75K for a Cicso 7xxx only to get an extra ethernet port. There was an insurance settlement in a shipping damage claim so where I used to work got a 7513, 1 HSSI, two 8-port serial cards, an 6 port ethernet card, dual power supplies for $22K. It was to be $33K. Surplus - new in box from a large company - through a liquidator. Value was good as it came to about $130/pound. Smaller devices cost more :-) We've never bought any new Cisco equipment except when there were big deals on brand new models to get the into the field. Had about a dozen of the 25xx deployed outside the building. > 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. Which brings up this question. How much is the m'board going to limit the performance? That's not rhetorical, that's a real question that I'd like to know. Bill -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message