Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 21:46:02 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> To: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quagga as border router Message-ID: <20070921214602.38487d27@meijome.net> In-Reply-To: <20070921035449.GC1906@gerbil.cluepon.net> References: <46F1AC0B.9040109@ibctech.ca> <46F1BDE1.8090102@gmail.com> <46F1E900.7070604@elischer.org> <46F1F376.3020609@ibctech.ca> <20070920072409.GT79417@elvis.mu.org> <20070920114839.M37866@swaggi.com> <20070921035449.GC1906@gerbil.cluepon.net>
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On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 23:54:49 -0400
Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> wrote:
> Honestly, FreeBSD routing code is pretty poor as far as a modern router
> goes. If you throw enough CPU at it you can brute force your way through
> plenty of things, but in the context of modern commercial routers it
> doesn't even play in the same league (even for a software-only router).
Interesting.... what is the golden aim of software based router we should be
trying to reach?
IMHO, comparing routing code in software vs. hardware routing, or vs
a RTOS seems a bit useless (unless the comparison is something like 'we could
do things much faster this way, but that would force us to go down the path of
hard RT OS..) Which is different to saying 'well, this and that part of x and Y
are inefficient / too expensive for the latest cpu models."
I'm not bagging you , but there's always the balance to be had - something very
flexible (as *BSD / Linux ) vs something very rigid (programmatically) but very
fast / scalable... i'm interested in seeing how / whether we efficiency can be
increased without losing the flexibility (of course, @ the cost of
time,etc...something needs to give :D )
cheers,
B
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