Software-based Border Router
Ingo Flaschberger
if at xip.at
Sun Sep 26 15:09:06 UTC 2010
Dear Nathanael,
> Just want to ask if anyone here had experience deploying software-based
> routers to serve as perimeter / border router? How does it gauge with
> hardware-based routers? Any past experiences will be very much
> appreciated.
> I wanted to know because we've been asked if we want to assume full
> control of the internet link (up to the router). By assuming control up
> to the router, we still want to configure iBGP with our parent network
> so that we can take advantage of some routes available to the parent
> network's gateway. The saddest part is presently we do not have the
> router to serve as our gateway this is why we are considering the use of
> software-based routers.
I operate freebsd / quagga core routers since 4 years.
pro: cheap, tcpdump at router
con: no support, no wirespeed
expected performance: 100kpps (1,2ghz pentium m) - 700kpps (quad intel
core 2, 3ghz) - and much more with 10gige cards
issues: 4byte asn produced a crash at quagga (downtime 2h in 4 years)
to develop a good core-router, this means not only to setup a pc with unix
and for example quagga, but setup an embedded unix to an appliance, for
example with cf-cards (readonly).
Kind regards,
Ingo Flaschberger
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