Re: Network oriented services with FreeBSD

From: laurent LF (laurent_lists_at_yahoo.fr)
Date: 03/25/05

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    Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 22:37:59 +0100 (CET)
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    Well, of course my question is too vague.
    Typically, I would be interested to know if people use
    FreeBSD boxen as routers, firewalls, for bandwidth
    management / QoS, service load-balancing (like LVS for
    example) or that kind of stuff in an ISP environment.
    In which cases people prefer FreeBSD to a dedicated
    hardware, why and on which scale. (why you prefer a
    FreeBSD box to a 3660 or 7200 for example and for
    which usage)

    I know lots of things can be done but I would like to
    hear real life examples.

    Thanks,

    Laurent
      
    --- Bob Martin <bob@buckhorn.net> wrote:
    > The devil is in the details here...
    > How good/scalable as compared to what?
    >
    > It does l2tp, but there is a much, much better
    > protocol.. SSH. It will
    > also terminate isakmp.
    >
    > Network load balancing? You mean balancing pipe? Or
    > services?
    >
    > We replaced our 3660's and 7200's with FreeBSD boxen
    > 2 years ago. We've
    > never missed them.
    >
    > But, like all things, FreeBSD can't be everything to
    > everyone. YMMV
    >
    > Bob Martin

            

            
                    
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