Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 12:56:47 -0800 (PST) From: Steve Curry <scurry505@yahoo.com> To: Dave VanAuken <dave@hawk-systems.com>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Software vs Hardware Router (was: What name brand would you buy for a firewall/router) Message-ID: <20010321205647.63298.qmail@web13102.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <DBEIKNMKGOBGNDHAAKGNAECLEGAA.dave@hawk-systems.com>
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Dave, First of all I appoligize if in a previous email you described what type of environment you are in. I've been busy and I haven't had a chance to read each and every email on this busy list. I'm in a environment that uses tonz of Cisco, tonz of Foundery, and *TONZ* of freeBSD. I use a freeBSD router in my job-domain here at Yahoo and it works great. It gets hammered and often and is always a happy little box. However my job is not to sell you on a BSD box or a job specific <brand-name-goes-here> router. I also use a box at home to do the whole filter packets/firewall/port-forwarding role and once again it works fine. I use a BSD box because it's cost effective, reliable and I understand it. I can't see spending the money to buy a job specific router although if I did I wouldn't hesitate to using it. You mention edge routing, are you doing this? What is your application? Cough up some details and maybe we (the list) can help. Steve Curry Technical Yahoo Yahoo! Inc. --- Dave VanAuken <dave@hawk-systems.com> wrote: > I would love to see some real stats (not claims to > fame by someone in > thier basement with a couple of systems who dables) > on the > effectiveness and capabilities of a FreeBSD Router > vs say a "Cisco > 2651", or the "7204VXR" which are some edge routers > we are looking at > for routing T1, T3, and OC3 connections. > > At what point it a FreeBSD Box (or Boxes) just not > up to the task > capability wise (ignoring the previous thread on > reliability of > componants, and moving parts). > > At about 3k for the 2650 (with appropriate loadout) > to close to 15k > for the 7204 I could see a FreeBSD box decently > loaded out capturing > the low end, but wonder where the divide would be on > the higher end of > the scale. > > Any first hand experience or thoughts on this? > > Dave > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of > the message > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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