Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 03:50:11 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Veggy Vinny <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG, Chad Shackley <chad@gaianet.net> Subject: Re: Decision in Router Purchase Message-ID: <199611141150.DAA10526@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 14 Nov 1996 00:24:50 PST." <Pine.PTX.3.95.961114001804.6675e-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
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>Pentium 75Mhz with 16MB of RAM. We had been in contact with Paul Berggren
>in Sales for CRL Networking and he said that we can get a T1 router for as
>low as $650 but what kind of router would it be?
You'll have to ask him.
>FreeBSD+card? As I understand it, you're the contact for the networking
>at Walnut Creek,
Yes, that is correct.
> we were wondering what are your experiences with CRL and
>how good is their peering with other ISPs? Thanks. Hope someone else who
>has the FreeBSD+card can share their experiences with us.
They have very good peering. Their backbone was overloaded, but they've
made some changes to mitigate the problem until some additional long-haul DS3
circuits are installed. They have major networking facilities in both San
Francisco and DC with 45Mbit/sec connections to most of the major NAPs.
This is not to say that things have been completely rosey. CRL didn't have
"direct" peering with Sprint until just a month ago, and they didn't have a
fiber/gigaswitch connection at MAE-east until just a week or so ago (it was
previously just 10Mbit ethernet). Their backbone still sucks and I was seeing
>75% packet loss on it as recently as last week. They don't connect to the
Chicago or NY NAPs ("only" MAE-east, MAE-west, PB-NAP, and CIX SMDS).
-DG
David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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