From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Aug 16 13:08:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA08260 for isp-outgoing; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 13:08:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from oak.alpine.net (oak.alpine.net [208.138.51.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA08255 for ; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 13:08:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rh@localhost) by oak.alpine.net (8.8.5/8.8.3) id NAA06923; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 13:10:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 13:10:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Richard Hodges To: Jim Dixon cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multi-homed - Load Balancing - No Single Point of Failure In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 16 Aug 1997, Jim Dixon wrote: > > > Now, if a FreeBSD machine can do *that* with 6000 ip route lines, I > > > think its doing pretty good. > > Our principle interface router at the LINX in London is carrying 45,500 > routes, handles over 30 external BGP4 peers and around 10 internal BGP4 > peers, and runs OSPF as well. The peak traffic I have seen through it > was roughly 10 Mbps through one interface, 20 Mbps through a second, > and 30 Mbps through a third. It coped very nicely. > If you are only carrying 6,000 routes or so, then the 2501 is good for > looking at the routing table. IOS is definitely better than gated for > this purpose. You BGP4-peer the Cisco and your gated router(s). You > can also use its serial ports to handle sub-T1 customers. Are you using the public version of gated (3.5.5?) or one of the restricted ($$$) versions? Would it be a mistake to use gated 3.5.5 to BGP-peer with Cisco IOS? It looks like $12000 to get into the latest versions of gated. Would it make sense for a number of interested parties to fund the membership so that all can receive the binaries? For instance, if freebsd.org were a "Small Service Member", that would give all organization members access to the source code, right? And they could freely include the binaries in the distributions... Or am I missing something? Just a thought :-) All the best, -Richard -------------------------------------------- Richard Hodges | (702) 888-3000 Alpine Internet | 400 Fairview Drive rh@alpine.net | Carson City, NV 89701 member, ISP/C