[106537] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Software router state of the art
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stuart Henderson)
Mon Aug 4 16:12:39 2008
To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 17:04:32 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2008-07-28, Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> wrote:
>> I have yet to look into *BSD based solutions, but hear very good things
>> about firewall performance. I don't know about BGP/OSPF/MPLS etc support
>> on FreeBSD but am going to wager a guess its on par with Linux if not
>> better.
>
> The underlying OS is responsible for packet forwarding, but none of them
> do any significant routing protocols natively.
OpenBSD has OpenOSPFD/OpenBGPD in the base OS rather than as a port/
package, so it's fully coupled with any kernel changes (and supports
some things missing from the FreeBSD port).
