Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 01:36:55 +0100 From: "Andras Tudos - Computronic, C3" <andras.tudos@computronic.hu> To: Mike <mike@mikesweb.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2 cisco's and a fbsd box running bgp Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.2.20010103011525.01917068@computronic.hu> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010102175100.0252b440@mail.futuredesigns.net>
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Hi, why don't you simply buy a double serial WIC (or a NM of your choice) into the 2610 - this way you'll have 3 serial ports - and go ahead? Of course you won't be able to get a full BGP table, but you might be able to balance your outgoing traffic someway (maybe you'll need some extra RAM as well). And later you can go on with a larger box as needed. I do not recommend to do multihop BGPs with mixed Ciscos and FreeBSD for just 3 T1s, this is not a good idea as it would introduce much more failure possibilites then a single router solution. (If you tell me the hw config of your 2610 then I could be more specific. A 2610 can handle 3 T1s if you do not do anything fancy, like complex filters or VPNs.) Andras Tudos At 2001.01.02 23:58, Mike wrote: >I have kind of an odd question. I have a Cisco 2610 connected to 2 T1's to >Savvis. I have a pending UUnet T1. Simplest option would be get a 3640 >with 3 T1 internal dsu's. BUT, that is $13k and change. I also have a 2501 >sitting here not being used, and a BSD box with 3 nics being used as firewall. > >My idea: >2 Savvis T1's on the 2610 >1 UUnet T1 on the 2501. >Run those into 2 of the nics on the firewall box, then the other nic to my >switch. I would like to make the bsd box be a bgp router (possibly with >zebra) but I'm not quite sure if that would work or what? Configure it to >broadcast our routing table, and pull routing tables from uunet and >savvis. The cisco's don't have enough memory to do so, and I'm doubting >they have the processing power with the traffic we get. > >Any suggestions/ideas would greatly be appreciated. > >Thanks >Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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