[167700] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Making of a Router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Francois Menard)
Fri Dec 27 08:48:32 2013
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From: Francois Menard <francois@menards.ca>
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 08:47:53 -0500
To: Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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You could look into Noviflow!
F.
Sent from my mobile device. Apologies for any typo.
> On Dec 27, 2013, at 8:05, Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl@gmail.com> wrot=
e:
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> On the topic of building a software router for an ISP, has anyone tried it=
> using OpenFlow? The idea is to have a Linux server run BGP and a hardware
> switch to move the packets. The switch would be programmed by the Linux
> server using the OpenFlow protocol.
>=20
> I am looking at the HP 5400 zl switches as the hardware platform and
> RouteFlow https://sites.google.com/site/routeflow/ to program the BGP rule=
s.
>=20
> One issue is that the HP switch will only allow a limited amount of rules
> to be processed in hardware (about 4096 rules I believe). Will this be
> enough to cover most of the traffic of a FTTH ISP on the fast path?
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> Regards,
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> Baldur
