[106411] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Software router state of the art
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin Sharp)
Mon Jul 28 13:53:15 2008
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:52:56 -0600
From: Justin Sharp <sharp@sharpone.net>
To: michael.dillon@bt.com
In-Reply-To: <C0F2465B4F386241A58321C884AC7ECC0745A590@E03MVZ2-UKDY.domain1.systemhost.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
michael.dillon@bt.com wrote:
>> but knowing how bad Linux is at being a router and that their
>> products are Linux-based, I'm afraid to give one a try. J
>> products are based on a competing non-Linux platform that has
>> a better reputation for routing.
>>
>
> Enough with the bipartisan politics. There are more choices than
> just Linux and FreeBSD for software routing.
>
> Click for instance <http://read.cs.ucla.edu/click/>
>
> --Michael Dillon
>
>
Anyone have experience with RouterOS (http://www.mikrotik.com/)? Created
mostly to run on these guys I think
(http://www.routerboard.com/comparison.html) which generally don't get
above 200k pps on the higher models.. But will RouterOS run on bigger boxen?
