On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 1:41 PM, aki<aki275@googlemail.com> wrote:
" Calling washington, and FreeBSD gurus, OVER "
@Wash, I've not had time to work on FreeBSD and VLANs for a long while though I read thru and it seems very do-able. What do you think, with all the fiber circuits on VLANS and some on proprietory tagging, is freebsd vlans a worthwile to look at?
Proprietary? Maybe I'm behind news, but IMHO an operator going proprietary is a bad idea. They probably want to do standard 802.1Q, and I'd like to think they're all doing that. FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris etc. all support dot1q.
Say eg, buy a 4 port eth card, use 2 ports for fiber circuits while use 2 others for gateway segmentation or possible load balancing. I know Cisco and the rest do it, but FreeBSD is king at networks. Then possibly run mrtg etc for graphs. ( my opinion )
Great idea. And while you're at it, probably install ntop on the same box, once in a while you may want to sniff what's going through your box, easily. Regards, Steve