[109937] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Gigabit Linux Routers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Thurlow)
Wed Dec 17 11:35:13 2008
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:33:24 -0600
From: Alex Thurlow <alex@blastro.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <82oczaq0zj.fsf@mid.bfk.de>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Eugeniu Patrascu:
>
>
> My concern with PC routing (in the WAN area) is a lack of WAN NICs
> with properly maintained kernel drivers.
>
Depending on your WAN interface, there's actually a decent amount of
stuff out there. The cheaper alternative to me has actually always been
to get some old cisco hardware with the proper interfaces and use it for
media conversion. I have a 6500 with Sup1As in it. It can't take BGP
feeds with the amount of memory it has, but with the right cards, it
will give my router Ethernet and push a few million pps with no problem.
Sounds like he's getting Ethernet from his provider though, so this
probably isn't an issue.
--
Alex Thurlow
Blastro Networks
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