BGP4 using FreeBSD

[Roman Volf]

When building your router be sure not to use hard drives, but get an 
IDE-to-CF adapter and use CompactFlash cards. Less moving parts = better 
when you're talking about a router.


Roman

Łukasz Bromirski wrote:

> Juan Jose Sanchez Mesa wrote:
>
> > We are looking to implement it via software using FreeBSD to
> > replace the expensive Cisco router needed to do BGP.
>
> > Searching Google we found software from FutureSoft and from Merit
> > Research (BSD license) that do BGP routing, but we want to know if
> > this really can compete with a complete Cisco (or other manufacturer)
> > hardware solution.
>
> Why you don't just lookup ports directory and install quagga? It's
> working solution to do also BGPv4, and it works in the real. Every
> decent PC (PIII-800) will do full BGPv4 routing with 128MB of RAM if it
> doesn't do anything else. Hardware is relatively cheap, so You
> can go for PIV or Athlon XP with 512MB RAM, and that machine will
> work flawlessly with multiple full BGP feeds.
>
> I have few PIII-800 with 512MB RAM and 3COM/Intel NICs, that are
> "benchmarking platform" for various Cisco, 3COM and Allied Telesyn
> routers. They're doing it almost idle, handling 160k prefixes.
> Moreover, they often better handle things, that would kill router.
>