[112208] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: real hardware router VS linux router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leen Besselink)
Fri Feb 20 14:31:17 2009
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:30:45 +0100
From: Leen Besselink <leen@consolejunkie.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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Ray Burkholder wrote:
>> In scaling upward. How would a linux router even if a kernel guru were
>> to tweak and compile an optimized build, compare to a 7600/RSP720CXL or
>> a Juniper PIC in ASIC? At some point packets/sec becomes a limitation I
>> would think.
>>
>
> Is anyone building linux/bsd-box add-on cards with off the shelf packet
> processors? Maybe something with the likes of
> http://www.netlogicmicro.com/ or whatever?
>
>
The first thing that comes to mind is this open source addon-card with
FPGA-processor for routing packets in hardware:
http://www.liberouter.org/liberouter.php
