[109931] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Gigabit Linux Routers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris)
Wed Dec 17 10:11:48 2008
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:11:25 +0000
From: Chris <chris@ghostbusters.co.uk>
To: "nanog list" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <CBE22E5FF427B149A272DD1DDE10752402368CDC@EX2K3.armc.org>
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You've given me lots to think about ! Thanks for all the input so far.
A few queries for the replies if I may. My brain is whirring.
Chris: You're right and I'm tempted. I've almost had my arm twisted to go
down the proprietory route as I have some Cisco experience but have become
pretty familiar with Quagga and tc.
David: May I ask which NICs you use in the IBM boxes ? I see the Intels
recommended by Mike have dual ports on one board (the docs say "Two complet=
e
Gigabit Ethernet connections in a single device =95 Lower latency due to on=
e
electrical load on the bus").
Patrick: That's what I was hoping to hear :) It's not the world's biggest
network.
Michael: Thanks very much. We have three upstreams. I guess 2GB of RAM woul=
d
cover many more sessions.
Eugeniu: That's very useful. The Intel dual port NICs mentioned aren't any
good then I presume (please see my comment to David).
Thanks again,
Chris
