From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Aug 15 06:04:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA25483 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 06:04:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from axe (axe.cablenet.net [194.154.36.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA25477 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 06:04:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from axe (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by axe (8.8.6/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA09543 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 14:00:56 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <33F45307.ABD322C@cablenet.net> Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 14:00:55 +0100 From: Damian Hamill Organization: CableNet Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.4 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multi-homed - Load Balancing - No Single Point of Failure References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jim Dixon wrote: > > We use SDL cards, because at the time we evaluated them the SDL boards > were better made than the ET boards. That may have changed; Dennis's > notion of customer relations hasn't ;-) You just don't see the funny side Jim :-) Put it this way, the bandwidth limiting function of the ET card would be really useful in our situation. If you could limit the bandwidth from our network over your expensive links then you could give us an ethernet connection in Telehouse for our purchased bandwidth with additional lots of bandwidth across the LINX. The result would be lots of happy customers for me, which would improve my chances of staying in business and thus remaining one of your customers. It would also be cheaper for both of us because we wouldn't be using a high cost synch serial port. If you were to forget your differences with Dennis (or even just forget it's Dennis you are dealing with) and have another look at his products then this would become a possibility. I don't let personal relationships get in the way of business so for me Dennis's 'sales technique' :-) is far less important than the functionality of his products. > > For reliability, use one such BSD router per link to the backbone. > Our experience is that the routers themselves are disgustingly > reliable if you don't fiddle around with the source code -- they > simply don't fail. Bummer I was going to put 2 links per machine (There are two ports on the SDL card after all and I've bought the dual port option ET card). Is that simply because if the machine bombs you lose two links as opposed to one ? regards damian -- * Damian Hamill M.D. damian@cablenet.net * CableNet & The Landscape Channel * http://www.cablenet.net/ http://www.landscapetv.com/