On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Robert Shady wrote:
>> Personally, I would recomend something like a Cisco 2501 router, with the
>> pase IOS IP software. It is alot less hackable than a Unix based router,
>> and also has the ability to do BGP.
>
>I dunno, our FreeBSD boxes running the freely available GatedD from Merit
>have been running BGP 4 & OSPF for quite some time now rather happily...

  Indeed, the aforementioned RS6000s on the ANS backbone ran gated.  When we had
ours at Digex, it was bgp peering with a Sparc2 running NetBSD/sparc, around
version 1.0...Ed Kern at Digex is a bgp god; had it running quite nicely with
like 30k routes in the routing table.  Typing "netstat -r" was fun!

                            -Dave McGuire