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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.netrail.net!netrail.net!nathan From: nathan@netrail.net (Nathan Stratton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Linux or freebsd as backbone router Date: 17 Sep 1995 14:42:08 GMT Organization: NetRail, Inc. Your Gateway to the World! (703)524-4800 Lines: 38 Message-ID: <43hc40$9i@skipper.netrail.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: netrail.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I am working to set up a PC router and have run into a few problems that some my have run into and be able to help. I started working on this problem when my 4000 with 16 megs or RAM ran out of memory a few days ago when it was peering with sprint. This is my setup: 486 DX4 100 32 megs of ram 2 ET T1 ports 2 10 meg ethernet ports Linux 1.2.13 So 1 of the T1 ports is connected to sprint and the other is no connected. I have bgp configured to peer with sprint and with 1 of my cisco's. The problem is that the computer gets vary vary slow, so slow that it is not usable. The other odd thing is that the data traffic seems uniform and it should not. i.e. 200 kbs in 200 kbs out when it was on the cisco it is more like 200 kbs in 50 kbs out. I don't know where this data is coming from. Is anyone out there using a Linux box as a router and not a cisco? Can a Linux box hold a whole internet routing table? If not will freebsdi do the trick or bsdi? Oh, I have used the Emerging Tech T1 cards and they work great. I think this is a config issue and not that there is anything wrong with there card. Nathan Stratton CEO, NetRail, Inc. Your Gateway to the World! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Phone (703)524-4800 NetRail, Inc. Fax (703)534-5033 2007 N. 15 St. Suite B-5 Email sales@netrail.net Arlington, Va. 22201 WWW http://www.netrail.net/ Access: (703) 524-4802 guest ---------------------------------------------------------------------------