[167771] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Making of a Router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sat Dec 28 16:14:33 2013
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 16:14:15 -0500
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Blake Dunlap <ikiris@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAJvB4t=ommnxCL1S4e=GVUvUJpyv93Sh_v-psgst+mvC_OGZRQ@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> Pretty much what everyone else said. I'm a huge linux person, almost
> everything I use is linux, run full Myth set up etc, but I wouldn't
> use it for a high PPS situation like this. It's just asking for
> suffering later, at the worst possible times.
to paraphrase MO from many years ago (as i do not have a direct quote),
do not use home appliances as production routers.
there are niches where routeflow/vandervecken are usable. there are
niches where quagga/bird/openbgp are useful.
but not core/backbone of any non-trivial network. they might be usable
for _slightly_ more than trivial if your business model values your time
at zero.
randy
