Cost per prefix [was: request for help w/ ATT and terminology]

Neil J. McRae neil at domino.org
Mon Jan 21 07:58:28 UTC 2008


I'm sure they will make it work but there a long list of issues using PCs as routers that still applies capex goes to opex.

-----Original Message-----
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian at creative.net.au>
Sent: 21 January 2008 02:23
To: Jeff McAdams <jeffm at iglou.com>
Cc: nanog at merit.edu
Subject: Re: Cost per prefix [was: request for help w/ ATT and terminology]


On Sun, Jan 20, 2008, Jeff McAdams wrote:

> A Linux box (*BSD, pick your poison) running Quagga or similar will do
> the job at an extremely low price point.
> 
> Yeah, again, not gonna want to pass gigs of traffic through it, but the
> same concept does still apply.

I dunno, the *NIXes seem suddenly interested in fixing up their internal
network code to try and handle 10GE stuff "better". You might find that
someone decides to drop in a crazy-looking intel e1000 NIC driver at some
point thats tailored towards forwarding 64 byte frames at gige rate.

The commercial guys hacking on FreeBSD routers/bridges keep telling me
they've done it w/ custom coding on intel NICs on decent-looking PCIe
hardware.  It doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility nowdays.




Adrian





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