[144480] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: vyatta for bgp
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael K. Smith - Adhost)
Mon Sep 12 15:10:05 2011
From: "Michael K. Smith - Adhost" <mksmith@adhost.com>
To: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>, North American Network Operators'
Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:08:34 +0000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dobbins, Roland [mailto:rdobbins@arbor.net]
> Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 11:56 AM
> To: North American Network Operators' Group
> Subject: Re: vyatta for bgp
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> On Sep 13, 2011, at 1:42 AM, Ben Albee wrote:
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> > Does anybody currently use vyatta as a bgp router for their company?
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> The days of public-facing software-based routers were over years ago - yo=
u
> need an ASIC-based edge router, else you'll end up getting zorched.
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How do you come to this conclusion? I think a software-based router for en=
terprise level (let's say on the 1G per provider level) can handle a fair a=
mount of zorching. I checked the Cisco and Juniper docs and neither vendor=
is anywhere near releasing their anit-zorching ASICs.
Mike=20
