Zebra Router???

Mon Apr 21 16:04:29 UTC 2003

> Ok, I'll bite. We're routinely shoving 500mbps through our FreeBSD system 
> running zebra, and we've never hit the 50% cpu mark. 3 GigE BGP peers 
> passing me a full table and one GigE LAN interface, a few VLANs, lengthy 
> IPFW rules, and tons of "count" rules so I can MRTG each IP passing through 
> it. In some off network synthetic testing, I easily maxed out our GigE LAN 
> interface before the router dropped a packet. All this on a $1800 Dell 
> server with a $150 Intel PCI-X card slapped in there. This system's been up 
> for 6 months now. Zero crashes, zero hung interfaces, zero problems.
>
> I'm not saying a FreeBSD+Zebra system is going to do everything that your 
> high end router will, but I haven't run into anything that I couldn't find 
> some way of doing with the tools that I had. 

My biggest bitch is the lack of multipath routing (yes I know you can hack it
in), but the ability to load balance of equal cost links would be a really 
nice feature.

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