[106417] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Software router state of the art
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Wyble)
Mon Jul 28 14:34:47 2008
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:34:37 -0700
From: Charles Wyble <charles@thewybles.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <488E102B.4050607@trelane.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Andrew D Kirch wrote:
> Justin Sharp wrote:
>> michael.dillon@bt.com wrote:
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> Yes I do, and I'm still in therapy. I was pushing 30mbit, and I can't
> remember how many PPS through one, and it crashed about once a month
> requiring onsite intervention (usually at midnight). This was running
> on a Compaq Deskpro I think. It doesn't have much support for good
> network cards. I suspect the Realtek's were behind the crashes.
Yeah.... or any number of cheap consumer parts in the Deskpro. I would
love to see RouterOS running on an HP or Dell mid range server and how
that performs. I'm guessing it would be quite nice.
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