Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 12:40:20 -0400 (EDT) From: "Bill O'Connell" <woconnel@bellatlantic.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a Dedicated Router Message-ID: <XFMail.990602124020.woconnel@bellatlantic.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906020901080.285-100000@schizo.cdsnet.net>
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Thanks for all the feedback on this. I've been running several NetWare MPRs for a few years so I'm familiar with the potential limitations of PC-based routers. I was more concerned with the non-compliance issues. Haven't seen anything in the replies that would dissuade me from replacing the MPRs w/FreeBSD given that this is not an Internet core implementation. On 02-Jun-99 Jaye Mathisen wrote: > > Well, yes and no. I just ordered one of these flash based IDE hard drives > to test booting FreeBSD. > > On the assumption that it works like it's advertised, then except for PS > fans, which can be addressed via dual power supplies, I should have no > moving parts. > > Which should get me pretty close to equivalent reliability. Heck, I have > FreeBSD boxes that have been up for almost 18 months under heavy use, and > my longest running Cisco is only at 70 some days, after crashing... :) > > On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Stephen Fisher wrote: > >> >> Other reasons why people don't like to use PCs as routers are things >> like the fact that they have moving parts inside them like hard drives >> which can fail and bring the entire thing down. >> >> Jaye Mathisen wrote: >> > >> > On 1 Jun 1999, Lowell Gilbert wrote: >> > >> > > Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> writes: >> > > >> > > > I wouldn't suggest it for a core router, but for a small office router >> > > > on >> > > > up it should be OK. >> > > >> > > Good summary of the performance issues. In my own opinion, I don't >> > > think anything that does its forwarding in software is fast enough for >> > > the Internet core. But then again, I work on stuff that *is* meant >> > > for the core. >> > > >> > >> > Well, like anything, it all depends on your definition of core/load, but >> > FreeBSD using ET's T1 cards, and 4 portt ethernet cards from Znyx is >> > handling significantly higher than "small office router" loads, trivially, >> > with 3-4% CPU usage, including firewalling. >> > >> > I'm only using P6-200's on supermicro MB's, but I see no reason to believe >> > that this won't scale to 12 T1's and 4-8 ethernet ports easily. >> > >> > PCI bandwidth may be an issue, but that's all I can think of. >> > >> > (Your other issues of compliancy are valid, but I suspect non-issues in >> > the current world, generally speaking). >> > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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