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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!data.ramona.vix.com!sonysjc!sonybc!newsjunkie.ans.net!newsfeeds.ans.net!news.csd.net!usenet From: -cgadd@cyber-fx.com (Chuck Gadd) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a router - 2 T1 / 2 Ethernet - BGP / OSPF Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 21:58:50 GMT Organization: Cyber-FX, Inc Lines: 16 Message-ID: <32b07f34.273273152@news.csd.net> References: <58g3cs$h5m@palan.palantir.com> <58h0fc$joh@stargate.stdio.com> <58hse8$5hv@nntp1.best.com> Reply-To: -cgadd@cyber-fx.com NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp19.csd.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99c/16.141 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32509 On 9 Dec 1996 20:22:32 GMT, dillon@flea.best.net (Matt Dillon) wrote: >:>: We had a router die this weekend and need to replace it with a new one. >:>: I'm looking for the pros and cons of using a PC with FreeBSD (+ who's Sync >:>: V.35 Frame Card?) vs a Cisco / Livingston / etc. > When BEST first started, we ran two T1's off a riscom card in a BSDI > box, and ran gated to do the BGP. It worked, but it was not all that > Now that was 2 years ago. gated / FreeBSD might very well make a good > combination today. Who makes a card that works with FreeBSD? The RISCom/N2 cards don't support FreeBSD (I don't think so anyway).