Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 18:33:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: <Bsdguru@aol.com>, <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: RE: RE: Imagestream WanIC-520 interface cards Message-ID: <200110140133.f9E1XHI45650@earth.backplane.com> References: <001f01c15428$cc748d60$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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:on the Internet has been routers costing in the $100,000 range. Now, maybe
:BEST Internet is now wealthy enough that you can blow that kind of money on
:Cisco gear without thinking about it, but a lot of smaller ISP's are not.
:
:If you look at what happened last weekend on Sunday, and the number of people
:that screamed about it, it's quite obvious that there are a huge number of
:gated and zebra boxes out there handling global routing. Take off those
:Cisco blinders, boy! ;-)
:
:Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com
:Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide
Hmm. Well, as a person who ran gated at BEST, has hacked on gated on
same, had to deal with BSDI and FreeBSD route table bugs, tracked down
OSPF bugs for a friend running gated, and otherwise spent hundreds of
hours (at least!) keeping boxes running gated operational... well, I'll
take the Cisco any day thank you very much!
If you are a small ISP and you have enough money to pay for two T1's,
you have enough money to buy a used router that can do BGP for you.
IMHO.
-Matt
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