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Date:      Sat, 16 Aug 1997 13:10:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Richard Hodges <rh@alpine.net>
To:        Jim Dixon <jdd@vbc.net>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Multi-homed - Load Balancing - No Single Point of Failure
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.970816125827.4748B-100000@oak.alpine.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.970816190356.21948E-100000@avon-gw.uk1.vbc.net>

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On Sat, 16 Aug 1997, Jim Dixon wrote:

> > > Now, if a FreeBSD machine can do *that* with 6000 ip route lines, I
> > > think its doing pretty good.
> 
> Our principle interface router at the LINX in London is carrying 45,500
> routes, handles over 30 external BGP4 peers and around 10 internal BGP4 
> peers, and runs OSPF as well.  The peak traffic I have seen through it 
> was roughly 10 Mbps through one interface, 20 Mbps through a second, 
> and 30 Mbps through a third.  It coped very nicely.

> If you are only carrying 6,000 routes or so, then the 2501 is good for
> looking at the routing table.  IOS is definitely better than gated for
> this purpose.  You BGP4-peer the Cisco and your gated router(s).  You 
> can also use its serial ports to handle sub-T1 customers.

Are you using the public version of gated (3.5.5?) or one of the
restricted ($$$) versions?

Would it be a mistake to use gated 3.5.5 to BGP-peer with Cisco IOS?

It looks like $12000 to get into the latest versions of gated.  Would
it make sense for a number of interested parties to fund the membership
so that all can receive the binaries?  For instance, if freebsd.org
were a "Small Service Member", that would give all organization members
access to the source code, right?  And they could freely include the
binaries in the distributions...  Or am I missing something?  Just a
thought :-)

All the best,

-Richard

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