From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Jan 6 10:07:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id KAA19330 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 10:07:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from etinc.com (et-gw-fr1.etinc.com [204.141.244.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id KAA19324 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 10:07:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from ntws (ntws.etinc.com [204.141.95.142]) by etinc.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA26091 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 13:12:20 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970106130726.00a7bb10@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 13:07:28 -0500 To: isp@freebsd.org From: dennis Subject: Re: FreeBSD as T1 router Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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