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Thread Index [isp-bgp] Re: BGP-linux
I've seen Linux based "industrial strength" hardware routers literally end up with kernel crapping and causing netlink update issues with routing software. Yes, Linux works very well in my experience with smaller links such as T1s and may be single DS3.. Now, try doing four T3s, one GigE card with 1GB of RAM with GateD doing full bgp routing on Linux.. Boy it was a serious nightmare that ruined my vacation. The solution was to move to FreeBSD on that same box.. no problem ever since. No wonder why juniper is freebsd-based ;) -hc -- Sincerely, Haesu C. TowardEX Technologies, Inc. WWW: http://www.towardex.com E-mail: haesu@... Cell: (978) 394-2867 On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 07:58:14PM -0400, jlewis@... wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Tom (UnitedLayer) wrote: > > > FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE > > 1GB ram > > Several Intel FastE Cards > > Flash card for booting/config > > Hard Disk for logs > > > > My advice is don't use Linux, last 2-3 installations I've seen using it > > couldn't handle the packet load. I do know of one active installation that > > seems to be ok, but the guy that runs it is very determined to make it > > work and has the knowlege to back it up (most don't). > > What do you mean couldn't handle the packet load? > I have a client using a bunch of Imagestream routers, which are basically > customized linux boxes on industrial grade PC hardware. One takes 6 > transit T1s and full routes from 2 providers. It's a Celeron 700mhz, with > 256mb RAM. Gated uses about 64mb RAM. The kernel seems to suck up about > as much for the routing table, leaving about 112mb free. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jon Lewis *jlewis@...*| I route > System Administrator | therefore you are > Atlantic Net | > _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________ > > >
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