Date: Sun, 26 May 1996 13:25:46 -0700 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: "Karl Denninger, MCSNet" <karl@mcs.com> Cc: dennis@etinc.com (dennis), amcrae@cisco.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Routers and FreeBSD (let's have a bakeoff) Message-ID: <199605262025.NAA00671@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 26 May 1996 12:03:21 CDT." <m0uNjDu-000IDOC@venus.mcs.com>
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> > Just for fun though, whats the mininum cost for a unit with two > > Fast Ethernets and a dual T1 and enough memory (at least 32 > > meg) to be multi-homed running BGP4? PC cost is under > > $2500. and it does quite nicely. > > Again you stack the desk. Why? > > Two T1 inbound circuits require no more than ordinary Ethernet (3MB > aggregate total on each T1 <= ~6Mbps (nominal REAL Ethernet throughput > under load). > > I can come up with contrived examples all day. So can you. Why are you > doing so? The rest of us are trying to keep away from that game. > > Further, that "multi homed Pentium box" will be VERY unlikely to be able > to survive serious convergence situations and still be forwarding packets > during the event. It further has to handle MEDs and policy routing to > be considered something I would recommend that anyone actually run in > a multihomed configuration (this is presuming you really want to > load-balance instead of just using one of the T1s for backup :-) > > >> I consider the access stuff fairly dinky :-) > > > > and the most lucrative. > > Which is why ASCEND just blew the doors off all the access router people a > couple of months ago (the P130 again) which, dollar-for-dollar, outruns any > PC *OR* traditional router solution. > Hi, V-site.net is a small ISP which uses an Ascend P400. My FreeBSD plus my Ascend Pipeline 50 is periodically knocking off the Ascend P400. Can anyone on the list make a recommendation to replace the Ascend P400? Since I know my ISP for about 20 years or so, if I can make a good recommendation he will go for it. Tnks, Amancio
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