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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!bug.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!dhesi.a2i!dhesi From: Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Using PC as router ok? Date: 17 Sep 1996 23:56:46 GMT Organization: a2i network Lines: 28 Message-ID: <51ndru$m75@bug.rahul.net> References: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960911145226.26774E-100000@syl> <5180oo$blk@vnetnews.value.net> <323f1d93.200583557@cherry.news.easynet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: waltz.rahul.net NNTP-Posting-User: dhesi In <323f1d93.200583557@cherry.news.easynet.net> chrisy@easynet.net (Chrisy Luke) writes: >BSDi themselves as well a a number of major UK ISP's all use BSDi with >Riscom sync cards driving 2mb E1 (Euro equiv. of T1) lines. You get >the source, you get gated (where BGP was pretty much developed ;) and >a box that's not redundant after you upgrade it. People often mention such configurations. But when I have asked if anybody is using them in a production network with nontrivial load, say a two-T1 multihomed gateway acceping full Intenet routing with each T1 being at least 50% loaded, nobody has ever come forward to say that such configurations exist and are reliable. A number of people mentioned that they set up such a system with very low traffic, but nobody confessed to continuing to use it when traffic grew to the levels I mention. Backtracking: >If you want it to work without having to go on a 5 day training course >and-still-manage-to-get-the-syntax-wrong, buy the PC. I was not impressed with the gated manuals. They mostly document the grammar, which is great if you are planning to write a parser but useless if you want to understand the semantics. -- Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net> "please ignore Dhesi" -- Mark Crispin <mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU>