[167658] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Making of a Router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew D Kirch)
Thu Dec 26 11:55:56 2013
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 11:55:01 -0500
From: Andrew D Kirch <trelane@trelane.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CAGWRaZZLk643=vkhp28orrfoXG7Bq9Yg7E4K6KwC7Z0yS3RYNA@mail.gmail.com>
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If you're trying to do this cheaply, I'd recommend an appropriate sized
Mikrotik router, and perhaps something running digium's transcoding
hardware/Asterisk, or some Adtran hardware.
Don't put all this in one box.
Andrew
On 12/26/2013 11:33 AM, Nick Cameo wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> We are looking to put together a 2u server with a few PCIe 3 x8
> (recommendations appreciated). The router will take a voip transcoding
> line card, and will act as an edge router for a telecom company.
>
> For things like BGP (Quagga, Zebra, all that lovely stuff!!!), static
> routes, and firewall capabilities we are thinking gentoo linux
> stripped for sure however, what about the BSDs? FreeBSD or OpenBSD.
> Any comments, feedback, does, and don'ts are much appreciated.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Nick.
>
