[20916] in SIPB IPv6
Re: limekiller pkgsrc update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Quentin Smith)
Thu Dec 31 11:50:26 2009
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:50:22 -0500 (EST)
From: Quentin Smith <quentin@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Troxel <gdt@work.lexort.com>
cc: sipbv6@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <smu8wcj9jq8.fsf@linuxpal.mit.edu>
On Thu, 31 Dec 2009, Greg Troxel wrote:
> NetBSD still be the best OS choice on x86?
>
> I think so; the v6 networking there is very solid and the OS
> update/package management bits are very sensible. We know it works at
> the scale we need (2K+ routing table entries).
>
> NetBSD works very well on xen, in case that matters; I have multiple big
> machines running as dom0 with a lot of domUs at BBN.
Didn't we express concern over jitter as a result of the hypervisor
scheduling? I think I'd be a little wary of using a domU on a heavily
loaded host as a router.
--Quentin
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