RE: vyatta for bgp

["Michael K. Smith - Adhost" <mksmith () adhost com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dobbins, Roland [mailto:rdobbins () arbor net]
> Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 11:56 AM
> To: North American Network Operators' Group
> Subject: Re: vyatta for bgp
>
> On Sep 13, 2011, at 1:42 AM, Ben Albee wrote:
>
> > Does anybody currently use vyatta as a bgp router for their company?
>
> The days of public-facing software-based routers were over years ago - you
> need an ASIC-based edge router, else you'll end up getting zorched.
How do you come to this conclusion?  I think a software-based router for enterprise level (let's say on the 1G per 
provider level) can handle a fair amount of zorching.  I checked the Cisco and Juniper docs and neither vendor is 
anywhere near releasing their anit-zorching ASICs.

Mike