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From: isdmill@gatekeeper.ddp.state.me.us (David Miller) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Using PC as router ok? Date: 24 Sep 1996 17:24:06 GMT Organization: Maine State Government Lines: 23 Message-ID: <5295fn$evu@web.ddp.state.me.us> References: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960911145226.26774E-100000@syl> <5180oo$blk@vnetnews.value.net> <323f1d93.200583557@cherry.news.easynet.net> <51ndru$m75@bug.rahul.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: gatekeeper.ddp.state.me.us X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!eru.mt.luth.se!news.algonet.se!news.cybernet.dk!news.ecrc.de!02-newsfeed.univie.ac.at!03-newsfeed.univie.ac.at!sbg.ac.at!cosy.sbg.ac.at!voskovec.radio.cz!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!news.inet.tele.dk!arclight.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci. com!in3.uu.net!news.biddeford.com!web.ddp.state.me.us!gatekeeper.ddp.state.me.us!isdmill Rahul Dhesi (dhesi@rahul.net) wrote: : In <323f1d93.200583557@cherry.news.easynet.net> chrisy@easynet.net : (Chrisy Luke) writes: : >BSDi themselves as well a a number of major UK ISP's all use BSDi with : >Riscom sync cards driving 2mb E1 (Euro equiv. of T1) lines. You get : >the source, you get gated (where BGP was pretty much developed ;) and : >a box that's not redundant after you upgrade it. : People often mention such configurations. But when I have asked if : anybody is using them in a production network with nontrivial load, say : a two-T1 multihomed gateway acceping full Intenet routing with each T1 : being at least 50% loaded, nobody has ever come forward to say that such : configurations exist and are reliable. A number of people mentioned : that they set up such a system with very low traffic, but nobody : confessed to continuing to use it when traffic grew to the levels I : mention. Nathan Stratton who posts frequently on inet-access or nanog reportedly uses just this configuration peering at one of the MAE's. --- David