[48162] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil J. McRae)
Thu May 23 10:29:17 2002
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0205231016190.12351-100000@Barney.robotics.net> from Nathan Stratton at "May 23, 2002 10:18:38 am"
To: nathan@robotics.net (Nathan Stratton)
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 15:22:58 +0100 (BST)
Cc: neil@DOMINO.ORG (Neil J. McRae),
Daryl@Introspect.net (Daryl G. Jurbala), nanog@merit.edu
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From: neil@DOMINO.ORG (Neil J. McRae)
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> 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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Neil J. McRae - Alive and Kicking
neil@DOMINO.ORG
