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From: nathan@netrail.net (Nathan Stratton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a router
Date: 5 May 1996 03:58:21 GMT
Organization: NetRail, Inc. Your Gateway to the World!      (703)524-4800
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Rahul Dhesi (dhesi@rahul.net) wrote:
: In <4md40m$3ov@skipper.netrail.net> nathan@netrail.net (Nathan Stratton) writes:
: 
: >We are using P133's are our routers, and do full routing with Sprint and 
: >MCI. We also have one at MAE-East and are peering with a 90% of the people 
: >there. 
: 
: Would you care to post some details of your configuration, including
: what motherboard, peripherals, cards, etc.;  traffic statistics, no. of
: routes, what gated version, what OS and what version, etc.?  How stable
: are these machines?  Do they ever hang and require physical access to
: reset?  What sort of uptimes do you see?

Intel Trident P133 motherboard
no peripherals
3 two port Emerging Tech T1 cards
2 EtherPower SMC ethernet cards
1 512K chepo VGA card

We are only doing a few megs a sec right now, and we are running FreeBSD 
2.1.0 with the latest and greatest gated. We did need to make a few 
changes so it could peer with the RS at MAE-East. The box is vary stable, 
and they stay up for a few months and we then reboot them for some reason 
or other. If we are doing debugging and it crashes it needs to be reset, 
but we now use serial ports for console and can reboot them from home. If 
we are not running the debug kernel it will just reboot on it's own if it 
crashes.

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Nathan Stratton		  CEO, NetRail, Inc.    Tracking the future today!
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