From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Aug 14 06:17:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA16555 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 06:17:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.mexcom.net (mail.mexcom.net [206.103.64.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA16548 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 06:17:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sunix (eculp@sunix.mexcom.net [206.103.64.3]) by mail.mexcom.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA01817; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 08:17:22 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <33F30557.3170F15@mexcom.net> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 08:17:11 -0500 From: Edwin Culp Organization: Mexico Communicates, S.C. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; Linux 2.0.14 i586) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Daniel O'Callaghan" CC: "Randy A. Katz" , isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multi-homed - Load Balancing - No Single Point of Failure References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Daniel O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Randy A. Katz wrote: > > > Given two upstream providers is it possible to use a single or two FreeBSD > > boxes to do BGP routing and load balancing? And if so, what equipment > > should we use? T1 Cards? Routers? > > > > My current provider is telling us we need a Cisco 4700 (20-30,000). I was > > thinking if I could get a powerfull FreeBSD box (200MHz Pro/MMX with 128MB > > RAM) to do the routing it would be just as good and about 20,000 less > > expensive...please let me know if I'm off my rocker! > > You *are* off your rocker to get a PPro200 128MB RAM. Depending on you > bandwidth needs, you only need a P-133 with 64MB of RAM :-) I have a > 686-120/P150+ with 5 ethernet cards and about 1000 kbps flowing through it > - i.e. a 66% utilised T1. CPU utilisation is about 10%, and a significant > amount of that is servicing interrupts on the PCI-NE2000 ethernet cards, > and checking the 470 ipfw rules I have loaded. Use de or fxp ethernet > cards in preference (the two busy cards in my box are de type). I'd > recommend a 686-150/P200+ to keep packet latency down. Use gated for BGP > peering. > > Dennis will probably remind you to look at www.etinc.com regarding > synchronous serial cards. But will he actually sell them? > > /* Daniel O'Callaghan */ > /* HiLink Internet danny@hilink.com.au */ > /* FreeBSD - works hard, plays hard... danny@freebsd.org */