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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!worldnet.att.net!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!battery.awod.com!usenet From: lam@awod.com (Ken Lam) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a router - 2 T1 / 2 Ethernet - BGP / OSPF Date: 16 Dec 1996 00:50:57 GMT Organization: Integrated Technical Systems Lines: 38 Message-ID: <5926dh$dng@battery.awod.com> References: <58g3cs$h5m@palan.palantir.com> <58rud1$78o@samba.rahul.net> <58s09j$n9o@mozart.jlc.net> <58s4vd$9nm@samba.rahul.net> <5924ss$d8q@nntp1.best.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: chs0118.awod.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.7 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32668 In article <5924ss$d8q@nntp1.best.com>, dillon@flea.best.net says... > The SDL cards are supported (in the kernel as sppp / sync ppp) >:>"please ignore Dhesi" -- Mark Crispin <mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU> > > If you are asking whether a FreeBSD machine can max-out a sync card > connected to a T1, the answer is yes. In fact, maxing out several > sync cards would not be a problem either. Agreed. > The problem with using a unix box as a router, as always, is more an > issue of reliability. If you ever need to run ospf or bgp, then > you generally have to run gated. Gated+UNIX doesn't even come close to > a cisco when it comes to reliability. Disagree. Since ANS ran the NSFNET on IBM rs6000/gated for several years at the T3 level, I can't say that the combo of unix+gated is unreliable. I personally have used gated/bgp on freebsd and bsdi, with no difficulties. Many persons run gated with netbsd or linux with no difficulties. I think everyone agrees that much of the reliability achieved in a system is dependent on the administrator who builds the system (and thusly, the quality of the parts he/she put into the system). PS. If you ask nicely, I'll send you a 7MB gated.conf file from an ANS router :) -- --- Ken Lam lam@awod.com Integrated Technical Systems Systems, Networks, and Internet Solutions -- Defining Technology Today "'Plug and Play' was only applicable to the original ATARI(tm)"