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Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

  • From: Neil J. McRae
  • Date: Thu May 23 10:30:59 2002

> 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. 

Yes I'd stick to NetBSD - when we first deployed it Linux didn't support
VLSM! [Nor did SunOS/Solaris]

Regards,
Neil.
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