[127807] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Vyatta as a BRAS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Bogstad)
Thu Jul 15 11:55:25 2010
In-Reply-To: <52797E25-BE3A-4ECB-B70E-B56ABB3908CE@arbor.net>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:54:39 -0400
From: Bill Bogstad <bogstad@pobox.com>
To: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Dobbins, Roland <rdobbins@arbor.net> wrot=
e:
>
> On Jul 15, 2010, at 10:23 PM, Joe Greco wrote:
>
>> For example, for a provider whose entire upstream capacity is 1Gbps, I h=
ave a hard time seeing how a Linux- or FreeBSD-based box could credibly be =
claimed not to be a suitable edge router.
>
> Because it can and will be whacked quite easily by anyone who packets it,=
either deliberately or inadvertently. =A0I've seen too many software-based=
routers fall over with far, far less traffic than 1gb/sec to think otherwi=
se.
Since you've seen "many software-based routers fall over", can you
provide details on specific hardware/software/traffic patterns/rates
where you've seen these failures? From what I can tell, software
based routers are almost universally used in SOHO environments; so it
would be nice to know when such solutions are no longer viable in your
experience.
Thanks,
Bill Bogstad
