Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 20:18:09 -1000 (HST) From: Vincent Poy <vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> To: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> Cc: Bill Fumerola <billf@mu.org>, Mike <mike@mikesweb.com>, <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 2 cisco's and a fbsd box running bgp Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101022010220.14141-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.0.20010102212748.02187a20@mail.etinc.com>
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On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Dennis wrote: > At 06:09 PM 01/02/2001, Bill Fumerola wrote: > >On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 05:58:24PM -0500, 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. > > > >Drop the money, get the 3640, and if you play your cards right[1] > >I think you can fit all the above into a 3620. > > Get a quad V.35 card and dump the cisco. A pentium 600 will run rings > around the cisco. > > Zebra is just fine for your kind of setup. The lower end ciscos are pigs > for the money. for example we have customers running 500 DSL over frame > channels on 500mhz boxes at low utilization, where a 3620 chokes at about 150. > > the quad card is $1295. so you're looking at about 3K for a more powerful > solution. I wouldnt suggest it to someone who doesnt know FreeBSD, but > zebra is no more difficult than cisco bgp to configure (its VERY similar), > so its really a no-brainer. > > Dennis Dennis is correct about this... We have one Point to Point T1 using Cisco HDLC for internet connectivity, 2 T1 Frame Relay circuits that consists of both 500 ADSL customers bridging (and the bridging works well since with ip's mapped to each DLCI, unlike a Cisco - there will be no battles over a IP assignments) as well as Frame Relay customers from 56k to Full T1 all on a Quad ET5025PQ PCI Card on a FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE setup using a ASUS XP55T2P4 motherboard w/ Intel 430HX Triton chipset using 64 megs of RAM on a AMD K6-200 CPU and it has a very light load even during heavy usage such as now: 8:14PM up 2 days, 19:55, 2 users, load averages: 0.08, 0.02, 0.01 We'll probably be upgrading the motherboard, CPU and RAM since we'll be doing BGP4 and adding additional capacity to the internet and will be using Zebra. Since Dennis is the only one who is familar with the ET card with a Zebra interface, zebra seems to be able to handle all the interfaces except the lines that require bwmgr so the ideal solution is probably to do all static routes using a script that loads up the ET utilities as well and only use zebra for the bgp portion. Cheers, Vince - vince@WURLDLINK.NET - Vice President ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] WurldLink Corporation / / / / | / | __] ] San Francisco - Honolulu - Hong Kong / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] Almighty1@IRC - oahu.DAL.NET Hawaii's DALnet IRC Network Server Admin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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