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Re: The Making of a Router
From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <mikevs () xs4all net>
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 15:31:11 +0100
In article <xs4all.CALFTrnNyr4V_Op0Rg4MGfN+8zX6474p80UpX3TM35y8kyYZLqA () mail gmail com> you write:
It seems to be a pretty "hot button" issue, but I feel that modern hardware is more than capable of pushing packets. The old wisdom of "only hardware can do it efficiently" is starting to prove untrue. 10G might still be a challenge (I haven't tested), but 1G is not even close to being an issue. Depending on the target for your deployment, it might make sense to whitebox a router or firewall instead of spending 20K on it. Especially if you're working with any kind of scale.
Yes well, but also remember that bandwidth is not everything. Packets per second is. And if you're going to provide internet connectivity to endusers, some of them /will/ get hit with DDOS attacks. With a hardware router you can survive that as long as the DDOS is not consuming all your bandwidth. A software router being bombarded with a few gigabits of 64 byte packets .. not so much. This is also the reason btw that you should look into shaping the outgoing bandwidth to each enduser, to prevent one of them being DDOSsed filling up the entire link he/she is on. Mike.
Current thread:
- Re: The Making of a Router, (continued)
- Re: The Making of a Router Jared Mauch (Dec 27)
- Re: The Making of a Router Faisal Imtiaz (Dec 27)
- Re: The Making of a Router Justin M. Streiner (Dec 27)
- Re: The Making of a Router Valdis . Kletnieks (Dec 27)
- Re: The Making of a Router Faisal Imtiaz (Dec 27)
- Re: The Making of a Router Justin M. Streiner (Dec 27)
- Re: The Making of a Router Baldur Norddahl (Dec 27)
- Re: The Making of a Router Jon Sands (Dec 27)
- Re: The Making of a Router Ray Soucy (Dec 27)
- Re: The Making of a Router Bjoern A. Zeeb (Dec 27)
- Re: The Making of a Router Miquel van Smoorenburg (Dec 28)
- Re: The Making of a Router Baldur Norddahl (Dec 27)
- Re: The Making of a Router Jon Sands (Dec 27)
- Re: The Making of a Router Matt Palmer (Dec 28)
- Re: The Making of a Router Ray Soucy (Dec 27)
- Re: The Making of a Router Brian Loveland (Dec 27)
- Re: The Making of a Router Baldur Norddahl (Dec 27)
- Re: The Making of a Router Randy Bush (Dec 27)
- Re: The Making of a Router Baldur Norddahl (Dec 27)
- Re: The Making of a Router Valdis . Kletnieks (Dec 27)
- Re: The Making of a Router Randy Bush (Dec 27)