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 -------------------------------------------- Richard Hodges | (702) 888-3000 Alpine Internet | 400 Fairview Drive rh@alpine.net | Carson City, NV 89701 member, ISP/C
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