Re: your mail

John R. Jamerson (jamerson@coastalnet.com)
Mon, 23 Sep 1996 18:55:23 -0400

On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Jacob Suter wrote:

> Lets say I wanted to multi-home two T1s into my pop using a couple
> PM2-ER-xx. Since the PM can't do OSPF, BGP, or anything really spiffy,
> couldn't you gateway (maybe even put some primary simple firewalling,
> etc) on a FreeBSD (or any other unix box) with two ethernet cards?
> Make the Unix box running Gated set it to run all the neat-o protocols.

I've only briefly read about BGP...but isn't this what BGP multi-hop is
for? i.e. the BSD box running gated acts as your router and speaks BGP to
the remote end of each of your T1's.

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