Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 11:15:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Culver <culverk@yumyumyum.org> To: Mykroft Holmes IV <mykroft@explosive.mail.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD as router - performance vs hardware routers Message-ID: <20030814111320.M20163@alpha.yumyumyum.org> In-Reply-To: <3F3BA7D8.9060006@explosive.mail.net> References: <1060871994.5979.12.camel@alexandria> <3F3BA7D8.9060006@explosive.mail.net>
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> As a Note, the top end routers out there, Junipers, run JunOS, which is > a FreeBSD variant. A Juniper M160 can route OC192's at wire speed > (That's 10Gb/s folks). However, the way those are set up, FreeBSD doesn't do the actual routing, as far as I can remember they upload a routing table to the line cards and transfer any changes to the routing table to the line cards, so the routing itself is done by high-speed hardware, and FreeBSD is mainly managing all the custom hardware. We did a similar thing when I worked for Ericsson with FreeBSD. Ken
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