> I have posted thos off-list, for the list: > http://www.lannerinc.com/DM/FW-7550_DM.pdf > pros: cheap, cf-disk support, low power (~50W)
cf-disk support is pretty easy to add to lots of things. With the advent of 4GB compact flash modules and CF-to-IDE adapters, it is not too hard to avoid rotating media... > OS: > Freebsd: > pros: very stable, quagge runs very well, fastforwarding support, quagga OSPF needs a patch on FreeBSD 7, else it will decimate your OSPF environment. > simple traffic shaping, interrupt less polling supported Several different traffic shaping strategies are available, and I think all of them go far beyond "simple". > cons: only 1 route for each network, vrrp failover is not easy to > implement with quagga and ospf, no multipath routing carp seems easy to implement, even with quagga and ospf. At least, it's set up on a lab setup here and everything appears to work as expected. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
