FreeBSD, quagga (BGP) and 2950 VLANs

[Roman Volf]

Kurt Jaeger wrote:

>Hallo,
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>>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?
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>We use this setup (with 4.x and 5.x as core routers).
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>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.
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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.


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Roman Volf
Keystreams Internet Solutions
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