[127806] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Vyatta as a BRAS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Thu Jul 15 11:36:12 2010
From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:35:45 +0000
In-Reply-To: <201007151523.o6FFNFX2010704@aurora.sol.net>
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On Jul 15, 2010, at 10:23 PM, Joe Greco wrote:
> For example, for a provider whose entire upstream capacity is 1Gbps, I ha=
ve a hard time seeing how a Linux- or FreeBSD-based box could credibly be c=
laimed not to be a suitable edge router.
Because it can and will be whacked quite easily by anyone who packets it, e=
ither deliberately or inadvertently. I've seen too many software-based rou=
ters fall over with far, far less traffic than 1gb/sec to think otherwise.
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