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From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or freebsd as backbone router
Date: 17 Sep 1995 22:59:06 GMT
Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes.
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In-reply-to: nathan@netrail.net's message of 17 Sep 1995 14:46:34 GMT
In article <43hcca$a3@skipper.netrail.net> nathan@netrail.net (Nathan Stratton) writes:
I am working to set up a PC router and have run into a few problems that
[...]
Is anyone out there using a Linux box as a router and not a cisco? Can a
Linux box hold a whole internet routing table? If not will freebsd or
bsdi do the trick?
Linux does lots of things fairly well. Serious industrial-strength
Internet routing is not one of them.
I would consider it foolish to actually try to run such a business on
Linux.
You would definitely be better off trying FreeBSD or NetBSD.
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Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com
--< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >--
NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, HP300, Sun3, Sun4,
DEC PMAX (MIPS), DEC Alpha, PC532
NetBSD ports in progress: VAX, Atari 68k, others...
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