> > 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.

[bgw1.pa:i386] netstat -rn | wc -l
   51421
[bgw1.pa:i386] grep -c peeras /etc/gated.conf
16
[bgw1.pa:i386] ps auxw | grep gated
root        76  0.0 19.8 25296 25272  ??  S     5Jul98   58:42.16 gated
[bgw1.pa:i386] netstat -ni
Name  Mtu   Network     Address               Ipkts Ierrs     Opkts Oerrs  Coll
de1   1500  204.152.184 204.152.184.1     419480093  0  302542165     0 1235784
de2   1500  204.152.184 204.152.184.249      177556  0 1338596158     0 6665384
fpa0  4470  <link6>     00:00:f8:41:02:34 1644535812 0    2104274     0     0
fpa0  4470  198.32.176  198.32.176.3      1644535812 0    2104274     0     0
lo0   1536  127         127.0.0.1                40  0         40     0     0
[bgw1.pa:i386] uptime
10:24AM  up 11 days,  1:47, 1 user, load averages: 0.15, 0.18, 0.17
[bgw1.pa:i386] uname -s -r -m
BSD/OS 3.1 i386
[bgw1.pa:i386] egrep 'cpu|MB' /var/db/dmesg.boot
cpu = Pentium (about 200 MHz) model 2, stepping 12, type 0, features 1bf
real mem = 134217728 (128.00 MB)
avail mem = 129523712 (123.52 MB)
buffer cache = 13258752 (12.64 MB)

(this is part of a pair; the other machine has the opposite direction's #'s)