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From: nathan@netrail.net (Nathan Stratton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Linux or freebsd as backbone router
Date: 17 Sep 1995 14:46:34 GMT
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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 freebsd or 
bsdi do the trick?

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!
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