[20892] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Linux Router KIT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Hollis)
Thu Oct 29 12:35:19 1998
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 15:21:07 -0800 (PST)
From: Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net>
To: alex@nac.net
cc: "Adam D. McKenna" <adam@flounder.net>,
Michael Shields <shields@crosslink.net>, dirk@power.net,
nanog@merit.edu, list@inet-access.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810281744180.28369-100000@iago.nac.net>
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998 alex@nac.net wrote:
> Lots of types interfaces? EIGRP? Things that Linux/PC does have is Hard
> drives that fail, etc; I guess you could do a flash thing, though. Other
> protocols, like IPX, Dec, ATalk, etc are not going to happen.
Eh?
IPX : http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/IPX-HOWTO.html
Decnet : http://linux.dreamtime.org/decnet/
Atalk : http://thehamptons.com/anders/netatalk/
> Also, for a long time, Linux had a hard time with lots or routes.
No longer applies. In fact Linux is now faster than BSD up to about
60-70,000 routes. BSD is faster at about 200,000. In between its about
even.
> If you are going to use a PC as a router, use an Unix that has real net
> code, like xBSD.
Please, leave religion out of the discussion...
-Dan
