23 May
2002
23 May
'02
10:18 a.m.
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