Zed Usser wrote:
Hi all!
There's been some discussion on the list regarding software routers lately and
this piqued my interest. Does anybody have any recent performance and
capability statistics (eg. forwarding rates with full BGP tables and N ethernet
interfaces) or any pointer to what the current state of art in software routers
is?
- Zed
I'd like to be wrong, but there's no way that any PC/Commodity routing
system is going to work (in any environment other than Ethernet). For
the small ISP starting out (you know, the ones selling T1's/xDSL), there
are no Channelized T3/OC3 cards available for a PeeCee, which means you
still need to buy something from Cisco or Juniper. And the major
carriers are already using Cisco/Juniper, because even at the price they
charge they aren't unreasonable because they support their product. I
don't care how many packets per second, or simultaneous route flows you
can do if I can't plug anything besides Ethernet into it. If you can
show me the hardware, great I'll take a look at it, otherwise these
simply don't matter all that much.
Andrew
