From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 24 13:26:13 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 1175816A4CE for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 13:26:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from phantom.keystreams.com (phantom.keystreams.com [207.158.28.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E55AD43D1F for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 13:26:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from volfman@keystreams.com) Received: (qmail 83463 invoked from network); 24 Jan 2004 21:26:11 -0000 Received: from ts46-01-qdr1564.wvlle.ca.charter.com (HELO keystreams.com) (66.189.142.28) by mail.keystreams.com with SMTP; 24 Jan 2004 21:26:11 -0000 Message-ID: <4012E2F2.2000108@keystreams.com> Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 13:26:10 -0800 From: Roman Volf User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org References: <4012E087.4080504@mr0vka.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <4012E087.4080504@mr0vka.eu.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 21:26:13 -0000 When building your router be sure not to use hard drives, but get an IDE-to-CF adapter and use CompactFlash cards. Less moving parts = better when you're talking about a router. Roman Łukasz Bromirski wrote: > 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. >