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Subject: Re: AS/BGP on FreeBSD ?
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>
>I have been asked by a Danish ISP who's about to go multihomed, if
>a FreeBSD box can run the BGP router when they get their own AS.
>
>I presume that would mean they will run gated.
>
>Anybody have any comments on this ?
>
>Any info on the subject welcome, in particular about what size of
>machine to use, and problems to look out for.
>
>Thanks in advance!

I just got off the phone with someone using our dual T1 card with ~40,000
BGP4 routes loaded with a 63 day uptime on a 64MB machine. :-)

Its nice to hear good news once in a while!

Dennis
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