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Re: Gigabit Linux Routers
From: Nathan Ward <nanog () daork net>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:07:47 +1300
On 18/12/2008, at 3:02 AM, Chris wrote:
Hi All,Sorry if this is a repeat topic. I've done a fair bit of trawling but can'tfind anything concrete to base decisions on.I'm hoping someone can offer some advice on suitable hardware and kernel tweaks for using Linux as a router running bgpd via Quagga. We do this at the moment and our box manages under the 100Mbps level very effectively. Over the next year however we expect to push about 250Mbps outbound traffic with very little inbound (50Mbps simultaneously) and I'm seeing differingsuggestions of what to do in order to move up to the 1Gbps level.It seems even a dual core box with expensive NICs and some kernel tweakswill accomplish this but we can't afford to get the hardware purchaseswrong. We'd be looking to buy one live and one standby box within the next month or so. They will only run Quagga primarily with 'tc' for shaping.We're in the UK if it makes any difference. Any help massively appreciated, ideally from those doing the same in production environments.
Give Click a try - it is an alternative forwarding plane for Linux, that ran much faster than regular Linux forwarding a few years ago, and I imagine would still do so.
The XORP routing suite supports various different FIBs, including Click. http://read.cs.ucla.edu/click/ -- Nathan Ward
Current thread:
- Re: Gigabit Linux Routers, (continued)
- Re: Gigabit Linux Routers Chris (Dec 17)
- Re: Gigabit Linux Routers Adrian Chadd (Dec 17)
- Advice requested for OpenBSD vs. Linux/OpenBGP vs. Quagga router deployment. Marc Runkel (Dec 17)
- Re: Advice requested for OpenBSD vs. Linux/OpenBGP vs. Quagga router deployment. Adrian Chadd (Dec 17)
- Re: Advice requested for OpenBSD vs. Linux/OpenBGP vs. Quagga router deployment. Scott Francis (Dec 17)
- Re: Advice requested for OpenBSD vs. Linux/OpenBGP vs. Quagga router deployment. Beat Vontobel (Dec 18)
- Re: Advice requested for OpenBSD vs. Linux/OpenBGP vs. Quagga router deployment. Tim Durack (Dec 18)
- Re: Advice requested for OpenBSD vs. Linux/OpenBGP vs. Quagga router deployment. Naveen Nathan (Dec 20)
- Re: Gigabit Linux Routers Chris (Dec 17)
- Re: Gigabit Linux Routers David Gilbert (Dec 17)
- Re: Gigabit Linux Routers Scott Francis (Dec 17)
- Re: Gigabit Linux Routers Sargun Dhillon (Dec 17)
- Re: Gigabit Linux Routers Chris (Dec 18)
- Re: Gigabit Linux Routers Eugeniu Patrascu (Dec 18)
- Re: Gigabit Linux Routers Etaoin Shrdlu (Dec 18)
- Re: Gigabit Linux Routers Adam Crosby (Dec 18)
- Re: Gigabit Linux Routers Michael 'Moose' Dinn (Dec 18)