[167712] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Making of a Router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonardo Arena)
Fri Dec 27 10:35:58 2013
From: Leonardo Arena <rnalrd@gmail.com>
To: Nick Cameo <symack@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 16:35:04 +0100
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Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On gio, 2013-12-26 at 11:33 -0500, 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.
>
I would definitely consider Alpine Linux [1], which is designed exactly
for that purpose. Small footprint, run-from-ram, config from on flash,
security oriented.
KR,
- leo
[1] http://alpinelinux.org/about
