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Date:      Wed, 13 Nov 1996 23:31:40 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Veggy Vinny <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
Cc:        isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Decision in Router Purchase 
Message-ID:  <199611140731.XAA10032@root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 Nov 1996 23:15:14 PST." <Pine.PTX.3.95.961113231231.6675U-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> 

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>Greetings everyone,
>
>	We at GaiaNet are currently considering switching from PBI.Net to
>CRL in a T1 link and are planning to purchase a new router as our current
>router from WellFleet overloads and has too many probems.  We are
>considering the Emerging Technologies Router Interface Card for FreeBSD
>but has anyone compared the performance of this to something like a Cisco
>2501?  Thanks for any advice you can offer.

   The 2501 seems to be a bit underpowered. Jordan switched out a Cisco 2501
for a 4000 at Walnut Creek a few months ago and things seem to work better
after that. I think the FreeBSD+card would likely work out better for you,
but that's more opinion than experiance.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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