We've had some rather good success with PC based routers. Typical setup was FreeBSD 4.x, 512mb, 20gb RAID-1, 3com Gigabit Ethernet card, Fore Systems OC3 ATM card. All this, with zebra on top. It worked well for a long time, although it turned out getting deprecated because of some zebra issues (with ospfd. They (the problems) weren't confirmed by the zebra community but thats the only thing we could narrow it down to. ospfd would die periodically.) The line cards were bought off of eBay. We did VLAN trunking through the 3com GBE card to a Catalyst 3548. Did any rate limiting with DUMMYNET and ipfw pipes. Overall, the whole system worked great for a few months without human interaction, until the ospfd problems. Feel free to contact me off list if you have any questions. I dont know all of the exact hardware/software tweaking that were done; alot of them were left default, but i'll try to help. -- James Cornman <jamesc@nac.net> Net Access Corporation - http://www.nac.net/ On Thu, 23 May 2002, E.B. Dreger wrote:

ADC> Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 14:30:16 -0400 ADC> From: Anthony D Cennami

ADC> "Not to say you can't route well with a linux or bsd system ADC> you can but at the high-end probably not as well." ADC> ADC> Tell that to Juniper.

Where can I buy their line cards for my PC?

-- Eddy

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