[57712] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Zebra Router???
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A Steenbergen)
Sun Apr 20 02:10:55 2003
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 02:10:22 -0400
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: Tom Daly <tom@dyndns.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.53.0304200153370.69298@manganese.bos.dyndns.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 01:58:35AM -0400, Tom Daly wrote:
>
> This box is running as a simple static router, i.e. one subnet on the
> inside, Internet feed on the other side. No BGP, no RIP, no OSPF. Pretty
> simple, eh?
Let me get this straight. No routing protocols? Perhaps Zebra is not what
you need. :)
sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 might be more your speed.
> So the goal is to know the bandwidth limitation of this router. Any
> ideas? I've heard numbers of 35Meg, 40 Meg, etc, however, I have not
> recieved a good reason backing it up. Can anyone offer some input on
> this?
As much as I hate to say this, stock FreeBSD makes a terrible high
performance router. The route-cache is horribly out of date with modern
techniques, and there just aren't that many wackjobs out there trying to
shove a hungred megs through a unix box to fully debug it (with the
exception of a certain notoriously cheap people who will probably respond
to this email talking about their success with FORE ATM OC3 cards :P).
Then again, as long as it's your network and not mind, who am I to stop
you.
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