From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 25 19:25:39 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A360016A4CE for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 19:25:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from whitehall.lin-tech.net (whitehall.lin-tech.net [66.118.35.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73F7343D31 for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 19:25:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bob@buckhorn.net) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (lfkn-adsl-dhcp-72-26-1-102.consolidated.net [72.26.1.102]) by whitehall.lin-tech.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E10025047 for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 13:25:32 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <424465A5.6030406@buckhorn.net> Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 13:25:25 -0600 From: Bob Martin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org References: <20050325142358.21025.qmail@web26807.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050325142358.21025.qmail@web26807.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at spamcontrol Subject: Re: Network oriented services with FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 19:25:39 -0000 The devil is in the details here... How good/scalable as compared to what? It does l2tp, but there is a much, much better protocol.. SSH. It will also terminate isakmp. Network load balancing? You mean balancing pipe? Or services? We replaced our 3660's and 7200's with FreeBSD boxen 2 years ago. We've never missed them. But, like all things, FreeBSD can't be everything to everyone. YMMV Bob Martin laurent LF wrote: > Hi there, > > We are planning to setup a new ISP and I am wondering > what kind of network oriented services you guys > successfully (performance, scalability,...) run on > FreeBSD boxes. > Not Web servers, mail or things like that (I know > FreeBSD is very good for that) but for example, can it > be used for l2tp termination, per user bandwidth > control, network load-balancing or that kind of very > network oriented stuff, in an ISP environment and how > does it scale compared with other solutions. > > Thanks, > > Laurent > > > > > > > __________________________________________________________________ > Découvrez le nouveau Yahoo! Mail : 250 Mo d'espace de stockage pour vos mails ! > Créez votre Yahoo! Mail sur http://fr.mail.yahoo.com/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-isp@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-isp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"