From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Aug 15 10:47:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA08568 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 10:47:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rainey.blueneptune.com (root@rainey.blueneptune.com [207.104.147.238]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA08560 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 10:47:15 -0700 (PDT) From: michael@blueneptune.com Received: (from michael@localhost) by rainey.blueneptune.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA00650 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 10:50:06 -0700 Message-Id: <199708151750.KAA00650@rainey.blueneptune.com> Subject: Re: Multi-homed - Load Balancing - No Single Point of Failure To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 10:50:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: from "Bradley Dunn" at Aug 14, 97 11:25:49 pm Reply-To: michael@blueneptune.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8b] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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