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Re: Gigabit Linux Routers
From: Sargun Dhillon <sdhillon () decarta com>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:02:09 -0800
Ah, NO! Stay away from Click. It is NOT stable. Unless you want to hold your network together with paperclips and rubber bands, stay away.
We use Linux software routing extensively where I work. We use Quagga primarily. I tried XORP, and it was very interesting, but not particularly ready for production. For our non-Linux boxes (FreeBSD), we use OpenBGPd, whereas on Linux, Quagga is far more stable.
From a hardware perspective, you guys really don't need anything special anymore.
Nathan Ward wrote:
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 kerneltweaks for using Linux as a router running bgpd via Quagga. We do this atthe 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 tweaks will 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 nextmonth 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
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Current thread:
- Re: Gigabit Linux Routers, (continued)
- 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 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)