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Re: Hardware for full mesh bgp

  • From: Henning Brauer
  • Date: Sun Apr 25 22:40:37 2004 
* Randy Bush <[email protected]> [2004-04-25 19:16]:
> yes, one can use freebsd as a router.  and i think it's
> kick-ass that md5 tcp is being worked to freebsd's normal
> level of support.  thank you!

You're welcome, but our code goes to the OpenBSD reporsitory before the 
others can pick it up.

> even in the developing economies, where labor is even cheaper
> than here in george's economic disaster, folk trying to build
> and maintain real commercial isps use real commercial routers.
> and yes, they cost too <bleeping> much, are too large, take
> too much power, and blow more heat than a vendor engineer
> blows smoke.

My main issue with those big commercial routers, especially those from 
this San Jose based company, is the quality of their software.

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Henning Brauer, BS Web Services, http://bsws.de
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