when last we saw our hero (Friday, Jul 26, 2002), Austad, Jay was madly tapping out: > > > 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. > > Yeah, well there are plenty of other manufacturers out there that > make comparable routers at 1/3 the price of Cisco. Don't get me > wrong, I think they make a decent product, but it's way overpriced, > even with a fat discount. actually - i've been liking zebra a lot lately. i've been quite impressed with the quality of the BGP and OSPF implementations, and i've got access to routers with really good implementations of both routing prototols. > > 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. :) > > Awww yeah, linux and BSD routers. :) running a routing protocol on the gateway for the locations is a very workable solution and likely the most cost effective given that these will more likely than not be cheap unix boxen. the real issue for this deployment is the ability to reach one location from another. do we have any realistic deployment locations for p2p links? -- steve ulrich sulrich at botwerks.org PGP: 8D0B 0EE9 E700 A6CF ABA7 AE5F 4FD4 07C9 133B FAFC