Non-Routing BGP Speakers
Michael Dillon
michael at junction.net
Fri Apr 28 06:05:57 UTC 1995
On Thu, 27 Apr 1995, Curtis Villamizar wrote:
> > Would anyone be willing to share their experiences with (or thoughts
> > about) this approach? Given that 64 MB of RAM for routing tables
> > woudl cost only around $2,000, this seems like a totally sensible way
> > to build a small, multi-homed AS. Will finding a vendor-supported
> > system for this be ... difficult? (I'm not exactly sure whether a
> > BSD box running Cornell GateD counts as "vendor-supported". ;-)
>
> BSDI works and comes with gated, though not the latest. The Riscom-N2
> is supported by BSDI and can give you 2 56k or even T1 lines speaking
> Cisco HDLC or PPP. I can't say I've ever tried it, but some people
> say it would all work fine. You could also take a subset of full
> routing since you probably won't be doing transit between major
> providers.
Emerging Technologies also makes sync cards with drivers supported under
BSDI, FreeBSD and some forms of SysV UNIX.
They have been discussed on either (or both) the inet-access and
bsdi-users lists in the past. Archives for inet-access are at earth.com
(or is that ftp.earth.com) and for bsdi-users at ftp.bsdi.com. There is
sometimes a search engine available for bsdi-users from a link at
http://www.bsdi.com.
I got my info by emailing dennis at et.htp.com but you could phone
(516) 271-4525 or fax (516) 271-4814
So there are at least two possibilities for building 80x86 boxes into
routers by using off-the-shelf sync cards and UNICES.
> with NetBSD on an older Sun. For PCs there is BSDI, FreeBSD, Linux.
I believe that support for sync cards under Linux is fairly new. Tread
carefully there.
> If you can afford to be dual homed, you probably can afford a router
> rather than a PC serving as a router.
There is also the question of support, spares, previous knowledgebase etc.
Build-your-own isn't for everyone but it is nice to have a choice.
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