[130036] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Software-based Border Router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Sun Sep 26 13:03:06 2010
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: "Nathanael C. Cariaga" <nccariaga@stluke.com.ph>
In-Reply-To: <553474862.6446.1285494100818.JavaMail.root@mailserver>
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 10:03:53 -0700
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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If one has a cisco 7200, then you have a software based border router.
Considerations, for a given router platform are capacity, =
susceptability to dos, features required etc. Depending on the capacity =
required a software device could do fine. If it's in front of hosting =
environment you want to know that it doesn't take dirt nap from a couple =
hundred mb/s of small packet.
Joel's widget number 2
On Sep 26, 2010, at 2:41, "Nathanael C. Cariaga" =
<nccariaga@stluke.com.ph> wrote:
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> Just want to ask if anyone here had experience deploying =
software-based routers to serve as perimeter / border router? How does =
it gauge with hardware-based routers? Any past experiences will be very =
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> I wanted to know because we've been asked if we want to assume full =
control of the internet link (up to the router). By assuming control up =
to the router, we still want to configure iBGP with our parent network =
so that we can take advantage of some routes available to the parent =
network's gateway. The saddest part is presently we do not have the =
router to serve as our gateway this is why we are considering the use of =
software-based routers.=20
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> Thank you.=20
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