Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 11:15:47 -0500 From: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: bv@wjv.com, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2 cisco's and a fbsd box running bgp Message-ID: <5.0.0.25.0.20010104111052.025ee680@mail.etinc.com> In-Reply-To: <20010103202022.A60418@wjv.com> References: <3A53AEA4.1C9E3A30@quake.com.au> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10101031301550.77223-100000@bsdie.rwsystems.net> <3A53AEA4.1C9E3A30@quake.com.au>
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At 08:20 PM 01/03/2001, Bill Vermillion wrote: >On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 09:58:44AM +1100, Kal Torak thus spoke: > > > I had seen the Adaptec board a few places, but it's expensive and I am > > > sick of Adaptec lately. > > > I agree with you, but I would also have to say the Adaptec Quad > > ethernet card is probably the best on the market atm... Its > > 64-bit, the others I have seen are all 32... > >Then you have to have a motherboard which supports 64 bit. More >added expense. Well its an extra few $100., versus paying 75K for a cisco 7xxx series. You do the math. A dual bus 64-bit MB has 5 Gigabits of bus bandwidth (vs 1Gb on a standard MB). Its a nice solution, particularly if you want to run say 4-8 ethernets and 4 T3 HSSIs or 12 T1s. Dennis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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