From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Nov 14 01:23:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA25892 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 01:23:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.52]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA25887 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 01:23:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (richardc@localhost) by soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id BAA20041; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 01:25:04 -0800 Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 01:25:03 -0800 (PST) From: Veggy Vinny To: Jim Dixon cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG, Chad Shackley Subject: Re: Decision in Router Purchase In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Jim Dixon wrote: > On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Veggy Vinny wrote: > > > We at GaiaNet are currently considering switching from PBI.Net to > > CRL in a T1 link and are planning to purchase a new router as our current > > router from WellFleet overloads and has too many probems. We are > > considering the Emerging Technologies Router Interface Card for FreeBSD > > but has anyone compared the performance of this to something like a Cisco > > 2501? Thanks for any advice you can offer. > > Don't buy a 2501. You can get a lot more performance for the same > amount of money using FreeBSD and sync serial cards. Yeah, that's what we have been considering. We are planning to dedicate a P5-75 with 16MB ram just to use as the router. What we are worried about is when the ISP asks us what router we're using, what would be a good description of this thing? > We use a variety of sync serial cards. The ET card is an old design, > takes up two ISA slots (one for each port), and has other problems. > The SDL Communications cards (N2d, N2pci) are better hardware. Hmmm, ET takes up two ISA slots? What are the problems with the ET? > The problem with the SDL cards is the lack of FreeBSD drivers. There > is a driver for the N2d but not for the N2pci. The ET driver software > suppports more protocols and some degree of compression. > > So generally SDL wins on the hardware side and ET on the software > side. We prefer SDL but are not happy with the lack of software > support. Hmmm okay, but is the ET still better than a Cisco? and does the SDL cost less or more than the ET? > -- > Jim Dixon VBCnet GB Ltd http://www.vbc.net > tel +44 117 929 1316 fax +44 117 927 2015 > Vince GaiaNet Corporation - Unix Networking Operations - GUS Mailing Lists Admin