Hi,
Our goal is uptime/redundancy, in pursuit of that
we're looking to get another T1 (maybe less,
radio or laser link to compliment our T1 wire) and peer. If
we can get increased bandwidth that'd be
very desireable too. Right now we're supporting
about 150 users. With an extensive pf rule set
we're rarely using more than 10% of a 500MHz
Pentium III. We'd also be implementing carp
and adding a WAN card(s) rather than using old
leftover ciscos for their CSU/DSUs.
CPU:
I figure about any new piece of (i386) equipment will
come with at least a 2GHz processer, which should
be plenty.
RAM:
I hear reports (old?) of users who have only
512MB RAM, but I figure on 1GB.
On another note, are the SBE (lmc(4)) WAN cards preferred
over the Sangoma (san(4)) cards, or does it matter?
Anything else I need to know about hardware?
Finally, not knowing much about bgp, I've a question
about load balancing over the two WAN links. Does
bgp/OpenBGP have any provisions for load balancing, say
based on WAN link latency? (Seems like this _could_
be a "bgp policy" at the local level, but nothing
leaps out at me from bgpd.conf(5).)
Thanks.
Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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