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Re: Advice requested for OpenBSD vs. Linux/OpenBGP vs. Quagga router deployment.


From: Adrian Chadd <adrian () creative net au>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:41:26 +0900


OpenBSD SMP support is quite limited. NetBSD SMP is quite limited. FreeBSD and Linux
seem to be running better. :)


Adrian

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008, Marc Runkel wrote:
Greetings all,

We are a software development firm that currently delivers our install ISOs via Sourceforge.  We need to start 
serving them ourselves for marketing reasons and are therefore increasing our bandwidth and getting a 2nd ISP in our 
datacenter.  Both ISPs will be delivering 100mbit/sec links.  We don't expect to increase that for the next year or 
so and expect average traffic to be about 40-60mbit/sec.

We are planning to run two OpenBSD based firewalls (with CARP and pf) running OpenBGP in order to connect to the two 
ISPs.

I saw from previous email that Quagga was recommended as opposed to OpenBGP.  Any further comments on that?  Also,  
any comments on the choice of OpenBSD vs. Linux?

I don't want to start a religious war :-) Just curious about what most folks are doing and what their experiences 
have been.

Thanks in advance,

Marc Runkel
Technical Operations Manager
Untangle, Inc.

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