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Re: vyatta for bgp

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Mon Sep 12 15:37:31 2011

From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:35:59 +0000
In-Reply-To: <D8CD26287252844898B508C40824D8F451C123@AD-EXH02.adhost.lan>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Sep 13, 2011, at 2:08 AM, Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote:

> How do you come to this conclusion?

Unhappy experiences.

;>

>  I think a software-based router for enterprise level (let's say on the 1=
G per provider level) can handle a fair amount of zorching.

My experiences indicates otherwise, FWIW.  It's very easy to packet a softw=
are-based router over a relatively small transit link in the mb/sec range, =
much less gb/sec - it happens all the time, FYI.

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