[109968] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Gigabit Linux Routers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ingo Flaschberger)
Thu Dec 18 07:13:13 2008
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:13:07 +0100 (CET)
From: Ingo Flaschberger <if@xip.at>
To: Eugeniu Patrascu <eugen@imacandi.net>
In-Reply-To: <494A387B.4010503@imacandi.net>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Dear Eugeniu,
>> 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
Multipath, yes, but flow-based, not per packet.
There exists a patch for 2.4 kernel, but not for 2.6
Or tinker with iptables.
Kind regards,
Ingo Flaschberger
