Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 13:07:28 -0500 From: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD as T1 router Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970106130726.00a7bb10@etinc.com>
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At 10:23 AM 1/6/97 CST, you wrote: >> I wonder if anyone else has results using FreeBSD on a WAN router. This >> message is more of a progress report than a question... > >I've been using an ET card for a year and a half (two?) years now. > >> A couple months ago, we needed another ether interface on one of our WAN >> routers. We had been using a Cisco 2501, which has only one ether >> interface and is not upgradable. I persuaded my employer to let us try >> out an Emerging Technologies HDLC card in a PC running FreeBSD. There >> was some grumbling from the Cisco loyalists - who ever got fired for >> buying Cisco? > >The person who did not buy the second redundant power supply for the 75XX >class router - causing a multi day service outage when the supply blows >:-) (that is not too funny... have nearly seen it happen, someone was >on the fence about buying the second supply... thankfully they did) "Everyone" uses Cisco and "the net" sucks, so what does that tell you? My upstream provider spent a fortune on Cisco 7XXXs (he has to, because they use IGRP and its Cisco-proprietary) and the thing has all kinds of problems (anyone having trouble getting to our site will know why).... Certainly Unix boxes arent bulletproof, but you could spend A LOT more and not be much better off. Dennis
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