[109963] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Gigabit Linux Routers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eugeniu Patrascu)
Thu Dec 18 06:48:19 2008
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:48:11 +0200
From: Eugeniu Patrascu <eugen@imacandi.net>
To: Ingo Flaschberger <if@xip.at>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0812181224530.26459@filebunker.xip.at>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Ingo Flaschberger wrote:
> OS:
> Freebsd:
> pros: very stable, quagge runs very well, fastforwarding support,
> simple traffic shaping, interrupt less polling supported
> cons: only 1 route for each network, vrrp failover is not easy to
> implement with quagga and ospf, no multipath routing
> Linux:
> pros: more than 1 route for each network possible,
> interrupt less polling should be supported?
> fastforwarding ?
> cons: no multipath routing
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Are you sure ? Because there is an option in the kernel, under advanced
routing setup to enable multipath routing.
And also, with iproute2, you can add multiple gateways with
different/equal weights for a specific prefix
