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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!erg.sri.com!mozo.cc.purdue.edu!purdue!lerc.nasa.gov!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.indirect.com!wes From: wes@indirect.com (Barnacle Wes) Subject: Re: Routing 56kb & T1 w/386BSD Message-ID: <CxxFC0.LEK@indirect.com> Sender: usenet@indirect.com (System Operator) Organization: Internet Direct, indirect.com Date: Wed, 19 Oct 1994 15:35:59 GMT References: <381jei$10n0@tiger1.ocs.lsu.edu> X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 42 Vikram Kumar Khare (vkhare@tiger.lsu.edu) wrote: : I just spoke to the folks at BSD Inc. and they say that their : package can route 56kb and T1 in the background. You'll have to : forgive me if these questions don't make much sense. Info. is secondhand. Sure - even T1 isn't all that fast, 1.55 Mbps. This is not as difficult as routing between two ethernets, which any *BSD system should also be able to do. : 1) When the networks changes, does it respond quickly? : 2) Does it compute optimal routes? : 3) How much of my 'puters resources does it take up? : I have a 486dx-66 w/8 megs. or RAM. Should I get a seperate : router or is BSD adequate? If you're talking about using the machine to route and as a workstation, maybe not. You would probably be better off getting a (cheaper?) machine to work as a router, and putting your workstation on the local network. This is what I'm doing at home, even though my network connection is a V.FC SLIP connection (soon to be V.34 and PPP). I have an old 386/20 with 4/80 megs, so I stuff the modem and an ethernet card in it, trim off unessential parts of FreeBSD, and let it route away... : Lastly, does it go with the OSPF model of routing? This is probably not important if you're routing between 1 single interior network and the rest of the internet. OSPF is mostly of concern for routers that route between several networks or network segments, like those in the NSFnet. According to the O'Reilly _Administering TCP/IP Networks_, you will probably want to use EGP as your exterior routing protocol on your router, even if you're only using a SLIP or PPP line. I haven't finished my configuration yet, so I can't help you on this yet. Work just keeps getting in the way of my hacking. ;^) Wes Peters