[101930] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cost per prefix [was: request for help w/ ATT and terminology]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Sun Jan 20 21:29:54 2008
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:23:57 +0900
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: Jeff McAdams <jeffm@iglou.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4793F364.3070106@iglou.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008, Jeff McAdams wrote:
> A Linux box (*BSD, pick your poison) running Quagga or similar will do
> the job at an extremely low price point.
>
> Yeah, again, not gonna want to pass gigs of traffic through it, but the
> same concept does still apply.
I dunno, the *NIXes seem suddenly interested in fixing up their internal
network code to try and handle 10GE stuff "better". You might find that
someone decides to drop in a crazy-looking intel e1000 NIC driver at some
point thats tailored towards forwarding 64 byte frames at gige rate.
The commercial guys hacking on FreeBSD routers/bridges keep telling me
they've done it w/ custom coding on intel NICs on decent-looking PCIe
hardware. It doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility nowdays.
Adrian
