vyatta for bgp

Dobbins, Roland rdobbins at arbor.net
Mon Sep 12 19:35:59 UTC 2011


On Sep 13, 2011, at 2:08 AM, Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote:

> How do you come to this conclusion?

Unhappy experiences.

;>

>  I think a software-based router for enterprise level (let's say on the 1G per provider level) can handle a fair amount of zorching.

My experiences indicates otherwise, FWIW.  It's very easy to packet a software-based router over a relatively small transit link in the mb/sec range, much less gb/sec - it happens all the time, FYI.

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