[48161] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Stratton)
Thu May 23 10:21:25 2002
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 10:18:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Nathan Stratton <nathan@robotics.net>
To: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@DOMINO.ORG>
Cc: "Daryl G. Jurbala" <Daryl@Introspect.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
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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
