Network oriented services with FreeBSD

[laurent LF]

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 at 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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