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On Thu, 23 May 2002, Neil J. McRae wrote: > I've done it in a production environment and unless money was > extremely tight I wouldn't consider doing it again. You will > save on capital expediture but you need an army of resources > to support it. When I did it, it was on NetBSD running GateD 3.x.x. > And it supported in both cases two of the largest ISPs in Europe. Good point, I also did this for cash reasons and would just buy hardware on the used market today. As far as OS, I was using stripped down FreeBSD. I started with Linux, but at the time they did not support radix trees so routing tables killed the box. If I HAD to do it again I would still say away from Linux. -Nathan
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