[90627] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Zebra/linux device production networking?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin W. Pauler)
Wed Jun 7 15:52:47 2006
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 14:49:22 -0500
From: "Justin W. Pauler" <jwpauler@gmail.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <e676u5$ppe$1@news.cistron.nl>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
I'm running ImageStream routers for the Internet distribution side of
my network (2 edge routers, 2 core routers) and I'm extremely happy...
This is a datacenter network and my customers are happy, I guess
that's all that counts.
In my opinion, I prefer to go with a open-source based solution
because of pricing and customizability... I can build a script and
load it into the equipment to give me any type of statistic I want...
And I don't have to wait for a new IOS release.
JP
On 6/7/06, Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> wrote:
>
> In article <cistron.Pine.LNX.4.62.0606070809350.15086@sokol.elan.net>,
> william(at)elan.net <william@elan.net> wrote:
> >you should be able
> >to set linux that is secure as freebsd. There are some differences
> >in the routing code whereas Linux is designed with per-flow based
> >switching in mind (which works very well when used as a server)
>
> Nobody noticed, but Linux 2.6 has alternative FIB code you can
> select when compiling the kernel. Yes, it is fairly new and I'm
> not sure it is production quality, but still. The config option
> is IP_FIB_TRIE, for the LC-trie algorithm. It's supposed
> to be something like CEF.
>
> Mike.
>
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Justin W. Pauler
Baton Rouge, LA
