[109967] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Gigabit Linux Routers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Thu Dec 18 07:09:03 2008
To: Alex Thurlow <alex@blastro.com>
From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:08:09 +0100
In-Reply-To: <494929D4.9090909@blastro.com> (Alex Thurlow's message of "Wed,
17 Dec 2008 10:33:24 -0600")
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
* Alex Thurlow:
> 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.
But you have to ask your peer to enable eBGP multihop, right? Or are
there some TTL tricks you can play?
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