For that sort of use case one of the new SDN offerings might work for you? If not, mikrotik has any roll your own based on gentoo router beat
--srs On Saturday, November 16, 2013, Nick Cameo wrote: > Thank you so much for your response. The 6500 is what I was trained on > however, for this case we cannot afford the rackspace. We're building > highly efficient networks using mainly virtual machines and > fiberchannel backbone. I did however overlook the 1Gig limit of the > 38/3900s.... > > So basically build our own linux router using a stripped down version of > gentoo? > > -- --srs (iPad)

