[177143] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MPLS VPN design - RR in forwarding path?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Baldur Norddahl)
Thu Jan 1 16:37:33 2015
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Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2015 22:37:25 +0100
From: Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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Is there a good reason to use actual router hardware for the route
reflector role? Even a cheap server has more CPU and memory. If it is not
in the forwarding path, this is a computing task - not a move packets at
line speed task.
Are anyone using Bird, Quagga etc. for this?
Regards,
Baldur
