From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Apr 5 1: 1:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from velvet.sensation.net.au (serial0-velvet.Brunswick.sensation.net.au [203.20.114.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD8B31503B for ; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 01:01:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rowan@sensation.net.au) Received: from localhost (rowan@localhost) by velvet.sensation.net.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA23981 for ; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 17:59:21 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from rowan@sensation.net.au) X-Authentication-Warning: velvet.sensation.net.au: rowan owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 17:59:18 +1000 (EST) From: Rowan Crowe To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: freebsd used in routers? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi all, Sorry that this is a fairly general question, but I am trying to get some real-world support for a proposal to build up an IP network from scratch using FreeBSD as the core - both for routing and server functions. (Using more than one machine, of course!) The routers will have no moving media (boot from network or flash drive). My questions are: How many of you are using FreeBSD PCs as reasonably high end routers (say 512kbit/sec+)? What made you choose this solution and what problems did you face? What sort of hardware are you using? If you are using an embedded router like a Cisco instead, did you ever consider a FreeBSD solution? If so, what made you choose the Cisco? How do you think the "closed system" of commercial embedded routers compares with an open source system like FreeBSD/pppd/ipfw/gated? Thanks for any responses. Cheers. -- Rowan Crowe Sensation Internet Services, Melbourne Aust fidonet: 3:635/728 +61-3-9388-9260 http://www.rowan.sensation.net.au/ http://www.sensation.net.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message