Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 16:53:32 -0500 From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: changed to: Frac T3? Message-ID: <199611152153.QAA06437@etinc.com>
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>> >I'm beginning to buy this like of thinking. >> >My original thinking was that I've seen disk fail more than anything >> >on our FreeBsd servers so that I didn't feel comfortable with the >> >idea of having a box with a disk running as a router. >> >On the other hand the idea of one of our server having a disk failure >> >doesn't cause fear in my heart the way having our Cisco fail does. >> >I know that we have enough parts in house to rebuild almost any >> >server from scratch in a couple of hours. We can get additional >> >parts any day of the week, almost any time of the day. On the >> >other hand if the Cisco's power supply or motherboard die we're >> >in trouble. We do have dual Ethernets and dual T1s still, it's >> >a bottleneck. >> > >> >So, I guess we'll start considering using T1 cards and FreeBSD boxes, >> >just need to have a spare T1 card. >> >Now, if someone would only offer a T3 card we'd be really happy. >> >> If only someone could get Freebsd to switch 17,000pps or more.... >> >> Whats the fractional T3 market? We're comtemplating putting an >> HSSI on our new PCI card (don't even ask!) which would be able >> to do ~32Mbs. To do full T3 would require redesign, and I dont think >> FreeBSD or any other unix platform could reliably switch 86Mbs, so >> I'm not sure its worth the effort. The advantage of the 32Mbs solution is >> that there would be no driver that needs to be written...it would just be >> an interface (HSSI vs V.35) difference on our standard product. > >Hi Dennis, > >I am guessing that your "32Mbs" would be a 16Mbps frac T3 line, >bidirectional? No, I mean 32Mbs full duplex, which is about 3/4 T3. Dennis
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