From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Nov 14 07:31:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA15295 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 07:31:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from avon-gw.uk1.vbc.net (jdd@avon-gw.uk1.vbc.net [194.207.2.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA15277 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 07:31:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jdd@localhost) by avon-gw.uk1.vbc.net (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA15603; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 15:32:03 GMT Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 15:32:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Jim Dixon X-Sender: jdd@avon-gw.uk1.vbc.net To: Steve cc: Veggy Vinny , isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Decision in Router Purchase In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Steve wrote: > > We at GaiaNet are currently considering switching from PBI.Net to > > CRL in a T1 link and are planning to purchase a new router as our current > > router from WellFleet overloads and has too many probems. We are > > considering the Emerging Technologies Router Interface Card for FreeBSD > > but has anyone compared the performance of this to something like a Cisco > > 2501? Thanks for any advice you can offer. > > Go with the cisco! There is something just a bit off with freebsd's > tcp/ip. I have a subgroup of users who get stalls, if my freebsd's are > not the other side of my cisco from them. For instance, if they were to > pull headers from a new server on the same subnet, the news server being > freebsd, it would stop.. Same with web pages. YMMV. We have a FreeBSD-based router that has been handling our peering with some 30 other networks in the UK for six months or so on an experimental basis. Works like a charm. Then we have a cluster of three routers in California, one a Cisco, the other two UNIX boxes. The Cisco has the lightest load and causes all the trouble. It is worth while remembering that TCP/IP was largely developed on UNIX boxes. -- Jim Dixon VBCnet GB Ltd http://www.vbc.net tel +44 117 929 1316 fax +44 117 927 2015