From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 24 13:14:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC6C716A4CE for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 13:14:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from y0d4.mr0vka.eu.org (y0d4.mr0vka.eu.org [195.116.69.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCAF743D45 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 13:14:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lbromirski@mr0vka.eu.org) Received: from mr0vka.eu.org (cn132.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl [80.54.210.132]) by y0d4.mr0vka.eu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86006ED2D for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 22:14:54 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <4012E087.4080504@mr0vka.eu.org> Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 22:15:51 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?=A3ukasz_Bromirski?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5a (20031219) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: BGP4 using FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 21:14:30 -0000 Juan Jose Sanchez Mesa wrote: > We are looking to implement it via software using FreeBSD to > replace the expensive Cisco router needed to do BGP. > Searching Google we found software from FutureSoft and from Merit > Research (BSD license) that do BGP routing, but we want to know if > this really can compete with a complete Cisco (or other manufacturer) > hardware solution. Why you don't just lookup ports directory and install quagga? It's working solution to do also BGPv4, and it works in the real. Every decent PC (PIII-800) will do full BGPv4 routing with 128MB of RAM if it doesn't do anything else. Hardware is relatively cheap, so You can go for PIV or Athlon XP with 512MB RAM, and that machine will work flawlessly with multiple full BGP feeds. I have few PIII-800 with 512MB RAM and 3COM/Intel NICs, that are "benchmarking platform" for various Cisco, 3COM and Allied Telesyn routers. They're doing it almost idle, handling 160k prefixes. Moreover, they often better handle things, that would kill router. -- Łukasz Bromirski lbromirski:mr0vka.eu.org