[163113] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: High throughput bgp links using gentoo + stipped kernel
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laurent GUERBY)
Mon May 20 04:47:11 2013
From: Laurent GUERBY <laurent@guerby.net>
To: Ben <ben@meh.net.nz>
Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 10:46:53 +0200
In-Reply-To: <1369038920.31084.466.camel@pc2>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, 2013-05-20 at 10:35 +0200, Laurent GUERBY wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-05-20 at 11:23 +1200, Ben wrote:
> > With regards to security of OpenBSD versus Linux, you shouldn't be exposing any
> > services to the world with either. And it's more stability/configuration that would
> > push me to OpenBSD rather than performance.
> >
> > And with regards to crashing I'd try and figure out what was happening there quickly
> > before making radical changes. Is it running out of memory, is Quagga dying? Is
> > there a default route that works when Quagga crashes? One issue I had was I found
> > Quagga crashing leaving a whole lot of routes lingering in the table, and I had a
> > script that'd go through and purge them.
>
> Hi,
>
> We've been running a small AS with BIRD on Linux(debian) without any
> issue in two years of production on two software routers so far:
>
> http://bird.network.cz/
I forgot to mention that there is now a paying support programme
in case you need it:
http://bird.network.cz/?support
Laurent
