OS choice

[Christian Weisgerber]

Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> wrote:

> > What is the usual or minimum hardware requirement?  Is soekris box
> > enough, or dual core or ASIC based platforms?
> 
> A soekris box probably doesn't have the I/O bandwidth nor the CPU power
> to process a full BGP feed.

"Henning and [Bob] holding up a running soekris, the significance
 of this is that this little box with 128 MB of ram and a 266 Mhz
 Geode CPU has a full BGP Feed and routing table happily running on
 it"

http://bofh.cns.ualberta.ca/beck/pictures/pf2k4/img_1001.jpg

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy at mips.inka.de