FreeBSD based router ...

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Giorgos
> Keramidas
> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 7:38 PM
> To: Matthew Donovan
> Cc: Marc G. Fournier; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: FreeBSD based router ...
> 
> 
> On Tue, 27 May 2008 22:28:35 -0400, Matthew Donovan 
> <kitche at kitchetech.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:56:55PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> >> Does anyone know of anyone make an enterprise level router 
> based off of FreeBSD?
> >
> > Juniptor makes routers based on freebsd. Sorry for the spelling really
> > it's incorrect for the company name but you can just look up theri
> > site if you want to pay for it really good from what I have heard.
> 
> The correct spelling of the name is 'Juniper'.
> 
> You are right of course.  Juniper develops high-end routers.
> They're very very good at it too :)
> 

They are very expensive.

A Juniper is not based on FreeBSD.  It uses FreeBSD as the
control interface.  The actual routing happens in specialized
ASICS that Juniper custom-builds.

Ted