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From: dillon@best.com (Matthew Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a router
Date: 6 May 1996 19:26:28 -0700
Organization: Best Internet Communications, Inc. (info@best.com)
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References: <4lfm8j$kn3@nuscc.nus.sg> <4md40m$3ov@skipper.netrail.net> <4mdr72$m7j@samba.rahul.net> <4mh90t$mct@skipper.netrail.net>
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:In article <4mh90t$mct@skipper.netrail.net>,
:Nathan Stratton <nathan@netrail.net> wrote:
:>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
:...
:>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.
:>
:>--
:>
:>Nathan Stratton CEO, NetRail, Inc. Tracking the future today!
Are you actually running a full BGP 4 peering session with the RS at
MAE-East? Or are you simply defaulting out?
We were trying to do full BGP 4 peering sessions 8 months ago with gated
running on a BSDI box (we were duel-homed with two T1's at the time),
but it ate a huge amount of memory and was *never* reliable. We use
cisco's now, of course (they are reliable and hands-off), but I'm
interested if 'gated' has become stable enough to handle full internet
routes reliably.
-Matt