Quagga as border router

[Alfred Perlstein]

* Steve Bertrand <iaccounts at ibctech.ca> [070919 21:14] wrote:
> >>> Essentially, I'd like a board with at *least* 6 PCI-X slots, and perhaps
> >>> 8 RAM slots (if I can find justification that my router will work better
> >>> with up to 16GB of memory).
> > 
> > Why would you go with PCI-X? it's slow and getting end-of life..
> > 
> > go for PCI-Express.
> > there are quad PCI-E gigabit cards available.
> > Much lower packet latency.
> 
> As per my last email to Sten and the list...
> 
> I'm not a hardware person. PCI-E, PCI-X, I don't know the difference.
> 
> It was assumed that others would understand what I wanted and be able to
> make recommendations to me, and correct me on my terminology.
> 
> All I do know is that there is something more than ISA slots, and 386's
> now ;)
> 
> My request wasn't for clarification on motherboard technicalities, it
> was essentially a request on a recommendation for a hardware/software
> platform based on FreeBSD, that could possibly replace a Cisco 7206-VXR
> based on the NPE-G2 processing engine (or equivalent).

Juniper is based on FreeBSD. ;-)

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- Alfred Perlstein