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Date:      Sat, 8 Sep 2007 14:14:26 +0000 (UTC)
From:      naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: OS choice
Message-ID:  <fbuao2$p8g$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>
References:  <167927.32637.qm@web44804.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> <86tzq662zx.fsf@ds4.des.no>

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Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> wrote:

> > What is the usual or minimum hardware requirement?  Is soekris box
> > enough, or dual core or ASIC based platforms?
> 
> A soekris box probably doesn't have the I/O bandwidth nor the CPU power
> to process a full BGP feed.

"Henning and [Bob] holding up a running soekris, the significance
 of this is that this little box with 128 MB of ram and a 266 Mhz
 Geode CPU has a full BGP Feed and routing table happily running on
 it"

http://bofh.cns.ualberta.ca/beck/pictures/pf2k4/img_1001.jpg

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de




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