[isp-bgp] Re: BGP-linux

[Dan Hollis <goemon@...]

On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Haesu wrote:
> Yes, Linux works very well in my experience with smaller links such as T1s and
> may be single DS3..

I have a single PC with 18 100baseT's in it, linux and zebra and it routes 
multiple full BGP views and forwards ~300mbps no problem. Shrug.

Theres no mystical or magical things to PC routing till you get to about 
600mbps (then you run into 33mhz/32bit pci issues). But Linux definitely 
still does not have any issues with routing it. At these rates you are 
hitting PC hardware architecture limitations, not Linux or FreeBSD 
limitations.

For every "linux horror story" I can counter with a *bsd one. So lets 
stop the OS bigotry right here and now, mmkay?

Linux,*bsd, etc. will do the job. If you need >gbe then you need something 
other than standard PC hardware. And those are the facts.

-Dan
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