Gigabit Linux Routers

Martin List-Petersen martin at airwire.ie
Sat Dec 20 02:26:02 UTC 2008


Henry Yen wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 18:32:40PM -0700, Michael Loftis wrote:
>> --On December 18, 2008 4:02:14 PM -0800 Bruce Robertson 
>> <bruce at greatbasin.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Imagestream does nice work as well.
>>>
>> I'll second the plug for imagestream as well.
>>
>>> Soucy, Ray wrote:
>>>> If all you're looking for is basic routing though, it might be
>>>> worthwhile just getting a Vyatta appliance.
> 
> Aren't both Imagestream and Vyatta routers built atop a Linux platform?
> 

So is Juniper a BSD base (if I recall correct). The difference is the
selection of hardware and added routing hardware.

The issue is, that those additions, that Juniper, Imagestream and Vyatta
add, are not available on the standard platform, so it can't be quite
compared.

Kind regards,
Martin List-Petersen

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