From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Aug 7 10:27:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from titan.aye.net (titan.aye.net [198.7.207.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E9A114D4B for ; Sat, 7 Aug 1999 10:27:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from barrett@phoenix.aye.net) Received: from localhost (barrett@localhost) by titan.aye.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id NAA34141 for ; Sat, 7 Aug 1999 13:26:12 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from barrett@phoenix.aye.net) X-Authentication-Warning: titan.aye.net: barrett owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 7 Aug 1999 13:26:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Barrett Richardson X-Sender: barrett@titan.aye.net To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: 2 queries] In-Reply-To: <199908070238.WAA61678@bilver.magicnet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Bill Vermillion wrote: > > [replace the router] ... and thus eliminate any single point of > > failure be it an ethernet card, cable, hub, router or whatever. > > To do the same with cisco equipment would require a pair of > > cisco 7xxx series routers with multiple serial and five ethernet > > interfaces each -- roughly $120k worth of hardware, > > You're obviosly not buying right :-). Check the used equipement > vendor. We got a 7513 - 1.5 years old new in the box declared > surplus by some major company. One HiSSI port, 16 serial ports > and 8 ethernet ports - all at about $30,000. That was before we > got about $5K on an insurance settlement where a fork lift pranged > the box and bent the fan and made seating of one dual power supply > a bit problematic. We rebent the metal and change the power supply > mount screw and all was well. > > It all depends on what you need to do whether a hardware router or > a OS based system will be best. We run mail, web, dns, etc., on > FreeBSD, and we are going to be putting up at least one for > outgoing bandwidth limited applications. So we'll have a > mixture. The real decision is what you really need and what > supports it best, is it not? > Indeed true. What type of contingancy plan do you have for failure of the 7513? - Barrett > Bill > > -- > bv@wjv.com > > > 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