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Re: Gigabit Linux Routers
From: Chris <chris () ghostbusters co uk>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:44:02 +0000
Thanks to the list again. There's lots more options than I'd considered. I think it's likely that I'll stick with what I know, which is Linux not FreeBSD and Quagga. The lack of a need to learn new stuff is the my main motivation behind this because I'm unlikely to break things as frequently. One final quick question on the NICs if I can. Following Mike's suggestion about specific Intel chipsets (82575 or 82576) it looks like it's much easier to source the chipsets mentioned by David (82571EB). If these NICs are embedded on the motherboard is it going to be of disadvantage in terms of performance ? I take the point of the interrupts being the key, kindly thrown into the mix by Eugeniu. A nice man called John mailed me off list and mentioned this off-the-shelf build. On that note does anyone have any experience of Lannerinc's appliances mentioned above by Ingo or John's suggested RouterBoard: "the 1000 series seems good, just short on ram on the basic spec. At sub £500 notes, it's cheaper than buying a basic server and it's designed to do the job you need. http://www.routerboard.com/prices.html". Both appliances seem to perform well in the throughput tests. Now to look at very affordable layer 2, Gigabit 3com switches with good pps. Chris
Current thread:
- Advice requested for OpenBSD vs. Linux/OpenBGP vs. Quagga router deployment., (continued)
- 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)