Re: FreeBSD, quagga (BGP) and 2950 VLANs

From: Roman Volf (volfman_at_keystreams.com)
Date: 09/19/05

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    Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:39:31 -0700
To: pi@LF.net

    Kurt Jaeger wrote:

    >Hallo,
    >
    >
    >
    >>I'm planning to connect the FreeBSD server to a trunk port on a Cisco
    >>2950 and put each interconnected IP provider into a separate VLAN. The
    >>documentation I've read so far suggests that FreeBSD is happy with VLANs
    >>- will this arrangement work and will it have any significant effect on
    >>performance?
    >>
    >>
    >
    >We use this setup (with 4.x and 5.x as core routers).
    >
    >We do this since approx. 1996 (in those days with gated and fbsd 2.x and
    >without the VLAN stuff), so it's very solid from our point of view.
    >
    >
    >

    What kind of throughput do you get using FreeBSD and what kind of
    hardware? Doing a straight FTP transfer from one server to another
    through a CIsco 3640 seems to cap at about 40 Mbits/second so I was
    wondering how that compares to a x86 system running FreeBSD. 

    -- 
Roman Volf
Keystreams Internet Solutions
volfman@keystreams.com
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