[109943] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Advice requested for OpenBSD vs. Linux/OpenBGP vs. Quagga router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Wed Dec 17 12:41:31 2008
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:41:26 +0900
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: Marc Runkel <MRunkel@untangle.com>
In-Reply-To: <C56E78C7.873B%mrunkel@untangle.com>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
OpenBSD SMP support is quite limited. NetBSD SMP is quite limited. FreeBSD and Linux
seem to be running better. :)
Adrian
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008, Marc Runkel wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> We are a software development firm that currently delivers our install ISOs via Sourceforge. We need to start serving them ourselves for marketing reasons and are therefore increasing our bandwidth and getting a 2nd ISP in our datacenter. Both ISPs will be delivering 100mbit/sec links. We don't expect to increase that for the next year or so and expect average traffic to be about 40-60mbit/sec.
>
> We are planning to run two OpenBSD based firewalls (with CARP and pf) running OpenBGP in order to connect to the two ISPs.
>
> I saw from previous email that Quagga was recommended as opposed to OpenBGP. Any further comments on that? Also, any comments on the choice of OpenBSD vs. Linux?
>
> I don't want to start a religious war :-) Just curious about what most folks are doing and what their experiences have been.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Marc Runkel
> Technical Operations Manager
> Untangle, Inc.
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