From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Nov 14 09:25:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA19690 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 09:25:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.109.160]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA19681 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 09:25:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id LAA25419; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 11:24:38 -0600 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199611141724.LAA25419@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: Decision in Router Purchase To: shovey@buffnet.net (Steve) Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 11:24:38 -0600 (CST) Cc: richardc@csua.berkeley.edu, isp@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Steve" at Nov 14, 96 08:58:40 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Veggy Vinny 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. One of my clients is an ISP with well over a thousand (local) lines, they have not reported any such problems to me... the news servers are FreeBSD. Just a data point, ... JG