[180041] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Low Cost 10G Router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Wed May 20 09:41:10 2015
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Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 14:41:04 +0100
From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
To: Cody Grosskopf <codygrosskopf@gmail.com>,
Colton Conor <colton.conor@gmail.com>, NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 20/05/2015 14:32, Cody Grosskopf wrote:
> I haven't tried myself but some of the stuff Cumulus Linux is doing is
> pretty amazing, not certain quagga can or should handle full bgp table but
> you could probably get a Penguin 10gbe for less than 8k.
quagga (or whatever RIB manager you want, e.g. bird) isn't the issue. The
issue is that these switches have limited hardware FIB capacity and if you
attempt to put a full table on them, they won't accept it.
Nick
