Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 10:50:06 -0700 (PDT) From: michael@blueneptune.com To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multi-homed - Load Balancing - No Single Point of Failure Message-ID: <199708151750.KAA00650@rainey.blueneptune.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970814224858.20679A-100000@ns2.harborcom.net> from "Bradley Dunn" at Aug 14, 97 11:25:49 pm
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> Gated is now pay-to-play if you want any of the newer features. See > www.gated.org for details. Basically it is going to cost you at least > $12,000 for the first year, and then $10,000 PER YEAR after that. That is > not trivial for the small to mid-size ISP. That reduces significantly the > cost savings of chosing a PC over a cisco. Has anybody been working on a free replacement for GateD? It's a wonderful product and all, but IMHO the current pricing scheme flies against the spirit of the net. (At least the old spirit anyway, it unfortunately -does- seem to embody the new spirit. :-/) I have nothing against Merit wanting to do what their doing. If it pays the research bills, gets things done, and their customers/partners are happy, then more power to them. But it would be really cool if there were a free version available, with active work in progress. Routing protocols are far from my forte, so I doubt that I'd get involved directly in such a project, although I would help where I could. But surely there are others out there who feel similarly, who -are- technically up to doing this? (Yeah, and I know, who have the -time- for that much pro bono work...) -- Michael Bryan michael@blueneptune.com
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