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From: tjacobs@vaultbbs.com (Thomas R. Jacobs, Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Fractional T-1 with a FreeBSD router: Any tips?
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 13:53:14 GMT
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tporczyk@best.com (Tony Porczyk) wrote:
>finlayson@lvn.com (Ross Finlayson) writes:
>>I'm planning to install a 128 kbps fractional T-1 connection (possibly
>>upgrading to 384 kbps or full T-1 later), using a Pentium box running
>>FreeBSD as a router.
>>Can anyone out there who's run this configuration give me any tips (dos,
>>don'ts, gotchas)? In particular: Which I/O card did you use to interface
>>to the T-1 DSU, and did you have any problems getting it to work with
>>FreeBSD? Also, which brand of DSU did you use?
>Being a UNIX fanatic, I nevertheless have to ask: have you considered
>anything like Pipeline 130?
I would agree with the choice of the Pipeline 130... We've had no
problems with the 130, however, be sure that you are using gated or
the version of routed that ships with 2.1.5 on the FreeBSD side. We
were using a previous version of routed that seemed to not send RIP
updates correctly to the Ascend.
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