From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Apr 11 15:46:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from schafftauchnix.plusline.de (schafftauchnix.plusline.de [194.231.215.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B89A616184 for ; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 15:38:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from richard@schafftauchnix.plusline.de) Received: (from richard@localhost) by schafftauchnix.plusline.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA02260; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 11:55:30 +0200 Message-Id: <199904110955.LAA02260@schafftauchnix.plusline.de> Subject: Re: freebsd used in routers? In-Reply-To: <19990407130447.D33D494CA@surf.iae.nl> from Willem Jan Withagen at "Apr 7, 1999 3: 4:47 pm" To: wjw@iae.nl (Willem Jan Withagen) Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 11:55:30 +0200 (MEST) Cc: rowan@sensation.net.au, isp@FreeBSD.ORG From: Richard Gresek Reply-To: rg@plusline.de X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL47 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I am playing with mrt after reading your mails and would like to use it towards our upstreams. One is connected via fastethernet so that won't be a problem. The other one is a E1. Is there some hardware supported by FreeBSD to connect to E1 or T1? Something like Cisco's highspeed serial with x.21? Are there some experiances in production use? Richard Gresek > In article you write: > >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? > > We have several heavy-duty routers, which do more than their share of work. > They even route traffic at 1320KBYTE/sec (> 10Mbit/sec), while > running gated with BGP. They have something like 5 100Mb interfaces. > (running on a PII-350, with 128Mb RAM) One of the routers was up for more > than a year before we needed to reboot for maintenace purposes. > > So for 512Kbit/sec it would be more than sufficient, I think. > > >How do you think the "closed system" of commercial embedded routers > >compares with an open source system like FreeBSD/pppd/ipfw/gated? > > You have the sources! and there free. Unlike Cisco's > > --WjW > > -- > Internet Access Eindhoven BV., voice: +31-40-2 393 393, data: +31-40-2 606 606 > P.O. 928, 5600 AX Eindhoven, The Netherlands > Full Internet connectivity for only fl 9.95 a month. > Call now, and login as 'new'. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > -- ==================> D P N <======================= =======> Deutsches Provider Network <============== Plus.Line Systemhaus GmbH Tel.: +49 69 7589150 Mainzer Lstr. 224 Fax : +49 69 75891533 D-60327 Frankfurt http://www.plusline.de =======> Deutsches Provider Network <============== ==================> D P N <======================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message