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Thread Index [isp-bgp] Re: BGP-linux
> 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. 300 Mbps is nothing, 500Mbps is nothing. You can do 300Mbps+ with a PII-450! > 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. Thats a load of horse poop and you know it. I did some work for a company that built FW/Router boxes loaded up with 100Mbps ethernet interfaces (3x4 port cards). We pumped each interface full of traffic with smartbits boxes, ended up with full speed on each interface. http://www.terasolutions.com/ builds PC boxes which have been tested up to 2Gbps+. > For every "linux horror story" I can counter with a *bsd one. So lets > stop the OS bigotry right here and now, mmkay? Tell me one thats not due to a HW failure or someone doing something moronic. I've done at least 2-3 conversions where people didn't touch a line of code, and switched from Linux to FreeBSD or SolarisX86 on the EXACT SAME HW, and got a 2-3 even 5x performance increase. Who cares about tech bigotry when experience speaks for itself? Only the team that doesn't have the winning tech. I could care less what anyone uses, I'm just sharing my experiences. > 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. I think thats a bit obvious, especially since they don't make OC192 Cards for PC's yet. I have seen OC48 cards, but I doubt the sanity of anyone wanting to do that anyways :) Besides, why piss about with PC's as routers, by the time you get to the amount of traffic that you need over 100Mbps of routing power, you're probably making enough $ to buy some real equipment.
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