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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Non-Routing BGP Speakers
On Thu, 27 Apr 1995, Curtis Villamizar wrote: > > Would anyone be willing to share their experiences with (or thoughts > > about) this approach? Given that 64 MB of RAM for routing tables > > woudl cost only around $2,000, this seems like a totally sensible way > > to build a small, multi-homed AS. Will finding a vendor-supported > > system for this be ... difficult? (I'm not exactly sure whether a > > BSD box running Cornell GateD counts as "vendor-supported". ;-) > > BSDI works and comes with gated, though not the latest. The Riscom-N2 > is supported by BSDI and can give you 2 56k or even T1 lines speaking > Cisco HDLC or PPP. I can't say I've ever tried it, but some people > say it would all work fine. You could also take a subset of full > routing since you probably won't be doing transit between major > providers. Emerging Technologies also makes sync cards with drivers supported under BSDI, FreeBSD and some forms of SysV UNIX. They have been discussed on either (or both) the inet-access and bsdi-users lists in the past. Archives for inet-access are at earth.com (or is that ftp.earth.com) and for bsdi-users at ftp.bsdi.com. There is sometimes a search engine available for bsdi-users from a link at http://www.bsdi.com. I got my info by emailing [email protected] but you could phone (516) 271-4525 or fax (516) 271-4814 So there are at least two possibilities for building 80x86 boxes into routers by using off-the-shelf sync cards and UNICES. > with NetBSD on an older Sun. For PCs there is BSDI, FreeBSD, Linux. I believe that support for sync cards under Linux is fairly new. Tread carefully there. > If you can afford to be dual homed, you probably can afford a router > rather than a PC serving as a router. There is also the question of support, spares, previous knowledgebase etc. Build-your-own isn't for everyone but it is nice to have a choice. Michael Dillon Voice: +1-604-549-1036 Network Operations Fax: +1-604-542-4130 Okanagan Internet Junction Internet: [email protected] http://www.junction.net - The Okanagan's 1st full-service Internet provider
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