From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 18 10:29:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA04927 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 10:29:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from proxy-bsb.gns.com.br (srv1-bsb.GNS.com.br [200.239.56.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA04911 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 10:29:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 25104 invoked from network); 18 Aug 1997 17:28:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO srv1-bsb.gns.com.br) (unknown) by unknown with SMTP; 18 Aug 1997 17:28:46 -0000 Received: (from mail@localhost) by srv1-bsb.gns.com.br (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA25074; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 14:28:40 -0300 (EST) Message-Id: <199708181728.OAA25074@srv1-bsb.gns.com.br> Received: from dl0230-bsb.gns.com.br(200.239.56.230) by srv1-bsb.gns.com.br via smap (V2.0) id xmaa25057; Mon, 18 Aug 97 14:28:07 -0300 From: "Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira" To: Cc: , "Daniel Capo Sobral" , "Jose Antonio Junio" , "Rodrigo Campos" , "Adrian Leguizamon Dantas" Subject: FreeBSD up to E1 Gateway Load Balancing Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 14:21:05 -0300 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1161 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi Folks, Although, It seems to me that the FreeBSD gateway vs. Cisco trend has quite silenced, I would like to get some insights from the "users" on the list. I currently use a PM from livingston as a router of a Frac-T1 leased line. However, constrasting to local telco price constraints, UUNet/Worldcom has been offering a very price interesting option for bulk transfers through satellite uplinks. So that, I am inclined to order a burstable E1 connection from them. I would like to know what was the conclusion of this thread. I will be using a K6 233Mhz processor with 32/64 Mb (depends) Ram and 4 Gig hd with FreeBSD 2.2-Stable solelly for the purpose of routing/packet filtering, so what network cards do I have as an option to finish building it? I will be using a Frac-T1 in one of the connections and a satellite uplink E1 on the other card. The uplink will be delivering my packets at USA, yet my local connection delivers them at Brazil. I would like to have load balance, so I understand that I will need to study gated to use BGP. I might be willing to use two gateways, one for each connection as noted on the discussion. Neverthless, I will be using only one to comence. What considerations should I keep in mind? Any troublesome network cards? Should I be using iBGP or BGP? Any special issues? Please help me. I've been following this discussion during the last week but I did not find it much elucidative. I apologize if I am being too repetitive, or if I am not using the right terminology. Regards, Mario Ferreira. ---- System Administrator - SysAdm@gns.com.br Consultor Tecnico - Mario.Ferreira@gns.com.br Personal - Lioux@gns.com.br Lioux@linf.unb.br Lioux@bsdnet.org GNS - Global Network Solutions Tec. Ltda http://www.gns.com.br/ ----