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Date:      Tue, 27 Oct 1998 11:57:40 +1000
From:      Stanley.Hopcroft@ipaustralia.gov.au
To:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Load balancing over 2 separate client links
Message-ID:  <4A2566AA.000ACA27.00@noteshub01.aipo.gov.au>

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Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

I am writing to say that while I have no experience of the load balancer or
the ET Bandwidth manager, that the ET product I have used works very well.

My employer bought an ET5025 ISA card (X25 + Frame relay, V35, up to 2
Mbps) for use in a FreeBSD router (Frame In, Ether out using IPFW as a
packet filter) as a potential CIsco 2503 replacement.

I am very pleased with the result since IMHO

- the ET/FreeBSD performs at least as well as the Cisco
- the ET/FreeBSD product is *much* easier to manage eg

. ssh to the router
. ipfw rules in an RCS managed repository
. the advanatages of a general purpose FreeBSD computer eg using lynx to
view pages, bpfilter for capuring data, ssh/scp for putting new
applications in place, patches to fix things  etc

If the Juniper (FreeBSD based router aimed at the Internet core:
http://www.juniper.com) products succeeds, there may be a great change in
the behaviour of layer 3 switches/routers.

The ET products work well and I am pleased to promote them.

Thank you,

Yours sincerely



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