[167662] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Making of a Router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alessandro Ratti)
Thu Dec 26 12:09:56 2013
In-Reply-To: <CAGWRaZZLk643=vkhp28orrfoXG7Bq9Yg7E4K6KwC7Z0yS3RYNA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 18:05:10 +0100
From: Alessandro Ratti <lord2y@gmail.com>
To: Nick Cameo <symack@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
if you want build by yourself I will suggest gentoo and/or freebsd with
bird (http://bird.network.cz/) for routing stuff (maybe with 10G nics).
Don't put all this in one box.
+1
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Nick Cameo <symack@gmail.com> 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.
>
>
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Ciao,
Alessandro
