> Yeah, but the problem here is that you are unlikely to convince your ISP to > give you a BGP session over your DSL or cable modem. So running BGP on your > internal network will do you no good if you can't get tables from the > outside world. true. Real-Time might be willing to accomodate you; but I don't know about other ISPs (Visi? Bitstream?) > we'd need to get routers which could actually run BGP without pegging the > CPU, and lots of memory or we'll have to summarize the tables quite a bit. > Zebra supports BGP, but in my experience, Zebra is flaky. I haven't used > BGP with it, but with OSPF and RIP, it has problems. well, it's open source, we know what to do. :) buying Cisco gear (even used) would probably put the whole affair out of the price range of anything but a commercial enterprise. personally, I"m in favor of the "90% solution". knowing that the last 10% of performance (speed, reliability, whatever) often costs 10x as much, I'm in favor of building something as cheaply as reasonable (not necessarily as cheaply as possible), that can be grown with better equipment as it becomes available. first let's make it work, then let's make it work well. :) Carl Soderstrom. -- Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com