[70028] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Hardware for full mesh bgp
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henning Brauer)
Sun Apr 25 22:39:12 2004
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 19:38:11 -0700
From: Henning Brauer <hb-nanog@bsws.de>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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* Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> [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.
--
Henning Brauer, BS Web Services, http://bsws.de
hb@bsws.de - henning@openbsd.org
Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity.
(Dennis Ritchie)
