-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Naga N wrote: > More than OS, it is the routing protocol support also dictate the choice of > OS. > Most popualr routing stacks are ported to Linux/BSD now.
Yep. Linux supports pretty much every popular routing protocol now. > Linux is getting there on routing platforms (versions like monta vista linux), > but it is a ruthless market where performance in numbers rule. Scalability > should be a keyword, and many startups have been burned in past trying > to enter the market. I don't think performance matters for the vast majority of the routing market. There are a LOT more edge access devices and aggregation devices out there than core routers. I've never seen anyone bandying about Linksys benchmarks. For those who have not seen Zebra, check this out: http://www.zebra.org I believe it even has an IOS like command line interface. From the website: What is GNU Zebra? GNU Zebra is free software that manages TCP/IP based routing protocols. It is released as part of the GNU Project, and it is distributed under the GNU General Public License. It supports BGP-4 protocol as described in RFC1771 (A Border Gateway Protocol 4) as well as RIPv1, RIPv2 and OSPFv2. Unlike traditional, monolithic architectures and even the so-called "new modular architectures" that remove the burden of processing routing functions from the cpu and utilize special ASIC chips instead, Zebra software offers true modularity. Zebra is unique in its design in that it has a process for each protocol. - -- Tracy R Reed http://ultraviolet.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCjaC19PIYKZYVAq0RAoa/AKCMwzhEHaokEq6Cq7ey/tGLHreiRwCaAoJf b1l3DGhNCYB/zssqi7YTeSw= =t+CY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
