Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 11:24:38 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: shovey@buffnet.net (Steve) Cc: richardc@csua.berkeley.edu, isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Decision in Router Purchase Message-ID: <199611141724.LAA25419@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.961114085720.17009P-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> from "Steve" at Nov 14, 96 08:58:40 am
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> On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Veggy Vinny wrote: > > 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. > > Go with the cisco! There is something just a bit off with freebsd's > tcp/ip. I have a subgroup of users who get stalls, if my freebsd's are > not the other side of my cisco from them. For instance, if they were to > pull headers from a new server on the same subnet, the news server being > freebsd, it would stop.. Same with web pages. One of my clients is an ISP with well over a thousand (local) lines, they have not reported any such problems to me... the news servers are FreeBSD. Just a data point, ... JG
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