[57731] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Zebra Router???
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ryan Mooney)
Mon Apr 21 12:07:45 2003
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 06:04:29 -1000
From: Ryan Mooney <ryan@pcslink.com>
To: Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com>
Cc: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>,
Tom Daly <tom@dyndns.org>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20030420011642.038c1ea0@127.0.0.1>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Ok, I'll bite. We're routinely shoving 500mbps through our FreeBSD system
> running zebra, and we've never hit the 50% cpu mark. 3 GigE BGP peers
> passing me a full table and one GigE LAN interface, a few VLANs, lengthy
> IPFW rules, and tons of "count" rules so I can MRTG each IP passing through
> it. In some off network synthetic testing, I easily maxed out our GigE LAN
> interface before the router dropped a packet. All this on a $1800 Dell
> server with a $150 Intel PCI-X card slapped in there. This system's been up
> for 6 months now. Zero crashes, zero hung interfaces, zero problems.
>
> I'm not saying a FreeBSD+Zebra system is going to do everything that your
> high end router will, but I haven't run into anything that I couldn't find
> some way of doing with the tools that I had.
My biggest bitch is the lack of multipath routing (yes I know you can hack it
in), but the ability to load balance of equal cost links would be a really
nice feature.
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