[109978] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Gigabit Linux Routers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Greco)
Thu Dec 18 11:56:09 2008
From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
To: if@xip.at (Ingo Flaschberger)
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:55:18 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0812181224530.26459@filebunker.xip.at> from
"Ingo Flaschberger" at Dec 18, 2008 12:41:47 PM
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> I have posted thos off-list, for the list:
> http://www.lannerinc.com/DM/FW-7550_DM.pdf
> pros: cheap, cf-disk support, low power (~50W)
cf-disk support is pretty easy to add to lots of things. With the advent
of 4GB compact flash modules and CF-to-IDE adapters, it is not too hard
to avoid rotating media...
> OS:
> Freebsd:
> pros: very stable, quagge runs very well, fastforwarding support,
quagga OSPF needs a patch on FreeBSD 7, else it will decimate your OSPF
environment.
> simple traffic shaping, interrupt less polling supported
Several different traffic shaping strategies are available, and I think
all of them go far beyond "simple".
> cons: only 1 route for each network, vrrp failover is not easy to
> implement with quagga and ospf, no multipath routing
carp seems easy to implement, even with quagga and ospf. At least, it's
set up on a lab setup here and everything appears to work as expected.
... JG
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