[44732] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Open Source BGP-router?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephane Bortzmeyer)
Tue Dec 11 10:16:47 2001
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:19:43 +0100
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@gitoyen.net>
To: Stephen Griffin <stephen.griffin@rcn.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Message-ID: <20011211131943.A986@laperouse.sources.org>
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In-Reply-To: <200112101926.OAA28838@elektra.ultra.net>; from stephen.griffin@rcn.com on Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 02:26:30PM -0500
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On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 02:26:30PM -0500,
Stephen Griffin <stephen.griffin@rcn.com> wrote
a message of 24 lines which said:
> Of course, it is possible to only offload the best-path computations, and
> keep non-PC routers for packet forwarding. This in much the same way
> as the current route-servers operate. For IBGP, route-reflector
Actually, Juniper routers work exactly that way (the BGP computation
is done on a separate processor, which is a Pentium).
I would like to see packet forwarding cards for PC (with suitable
documentation to write the Linux driver): it would allow to build
"poor man's Junipers" with only free software.
