From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 26 16:58:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA16897 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 16:58:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au [202.14.186.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA16887 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 16:58:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Stanley.Hopcroft@ipaustralia.gov.au) From: Stanley.Hopcroft@ipaustralia.gov.au Received: (from smap@localhost) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA08093 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 11:58:12 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from Stanley.Hopcroft@ipaustralia.gov.au) X-Authentication-Warning: pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au: smap set sender to using -f Received: from noteshub01.aipo.gov.au(10.0.100.21) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au via smap (V2.0) id xma008087; Tue, 27 Oct 98 11:57:59 +1100 Received: by noteshub01.aipo.gov.au(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.2 (693.3 8-11-1998)) id 4A2566AA.000ACC0F ; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 11:57:55 +1000 X-Lotus-FromDomain: IP_AUSTRALIA To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <4A2566AA.000ACA27.00@noteshub01.aipo.gov.au> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 11:57:40 +1000 Subject: Re: Load balancing over 2 separate client links Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message