From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 26 14:02:23 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5952316A4CE for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 14:02:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mordrede.visionsix.net (mordrede.visionsix.net [206.113.65.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC25443D48 for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 14:02:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@visionsix.com) Received: from vsis169 (unverified [206.113.65.14]) by mordrede.visionsix.net for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 08:02:20 -0600 Message-ID: <024001c5320c$6d5858f0$0e4171ce@visionsix.com> From: "Lewis Watson" To: References: <20050325142358.21025.qmail@web26807.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 08:02:20 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Subject: Re: Network oriented services with FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 14:02:23 -0000 > what kind of network oriented services you guys > successfully (performance, scalability,...) run on > can it > be used for l2tp termination, per user bandwidth > control, network load-balancing or that kind of very > network oriented stuff, in an ISP environment and how > does it scale compared with other solutions.=20 > Thanks, > Laurent Hi Laurent, We have used FreeBSD in different situations within our network, as well = as some of our client networks, always with a positive result.=20 Examples: Router with basic packet filtering Router with stateful packet filtering and bandwidth management. =20 We have assisted clients in deploying it as a bridge so that they could = review where their bandwidth was being used and then configured it to = manage bandwidth. We have had other cases where we used FreeBSD as a = NAT/ DHCP server. The largest of these I personally have known of was = for a network with ~ 3000 active hosts. It seems I have seen = information on load balancing but I cannot remember where. Below is a = quick list of a few applications to consider; I am sure there are many = more that are not included... Dynamic routing: Routed Zebra OpenBGPD Packet Filtering/ Firewalling: IPFW PF IPF Bandwidth Management/ QOS: Dummynet ALT-Q On the hardware side we have used anything from a Pentium 133 w/ 64MB = RAM up to a 1GHz PIII with 512MB RAM.=20 Have Fun! Lewis Watson