Re: Cost per prefix [was: request for help w/ ATT and terminology]

[Adrian Chadd <adrian () creative net au>]

On Sun, Jan 20, 2008, Jeff McAdams wrote:

> A Linux box (*BSD, pick your poison) running Quagga or similar will do
> the job at an extremely low price point.
>
> Yeah, again, not gonna want to pass gigs of traffic through it, but the
> same concept does still apply.

I dunno, the *NIXes seem suddenly interested in fixing up their internal
network code to try and handle 10GE stuff "better". You might find that
someone decides to drop in a crazy-looking intel e1000 NIC driver at some
point thats tailored towards forwarding 64 byte frames at gige rate.

The commercial guys hacking on FreeBSD routers/bridges keep telling me
they've done it w/ custom coding on intel NICs on decent-looking PCIe
hardware.  It doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility nowdays.




Adrian