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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!hoho.quake.net!hilbert.dnai.com!news.zeitgeist.net!usenet From: "Amancio Hasty, Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a Cisco 7000? Date: 23 Sep 1995 18:28:40 GMT Organization: TLGnet, a division of RGNet, Inc. Lines: 24 Message-ID: <441jko$3k@kadath.zeitgeist.net> References: <43dicb$c40@sundog.tiac.net> <MICHAELV.95Sep16004634@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: rah.star-gate.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) X-URL: news:MICHAELV.95Sep16004634@MindBender.HeadCandy.com michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon) wrote: >In article <43dicb$c40@sundog.tiac.net> dana@millenium.tiac.net (Dana Basken) writes: > > I've been looking for information on making a FreeBSD box into a T1 router, > I would assume with multiple V.35 cards and an advanced routing daemon. Has > anyone tried this? Success stories, horror stories, I'd like to here them! > >As great as FreeBSD and NetBSD are, a T1 connection and some V.35 >cards does not a Cisco 7000 make! Those 7000's are hellishly fast >real-time switches, with multi-hundred megabyte bandwidth data busses. > >Now, you might be able to make a pretty fine router out of a *BSD box, >but it will not be a Cisco 7000. :-) Hmm... I wonder how hard will it be to do routing or ip switching in hardware :) -- Amancio Hasty Hasty Software Consulting Services Tel: 415-495-3046 Fax: 415-495-3046 Cellular: 415-309-8434 e-mail: hasty@star-gate.com Powered by FreeBSD