VPP-based router vs Hardware assisted ones

Wed Jun 6 03:29:19 UTC 2018

I haven't necessarily decided to take this direction, I just want to know
what the state of the platform is. I have not reviewed cumulus or pica8,
though I have heard of cumulus. Yes, in some cases I would like to take a
full table.

On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 9:26 PM, Kasper Adel <karim.adel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Ross
>
> Did you make a decision to take that direction after reviewing ‘open
> networking’ platforms like cumulus and pica8?
>
> Are you trying to use the full routing table?
>
> ~kim
>
> On Thursday, May 24, 2018, Ross Tajvar <ross at tajvar.io> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Has anyone had any luck building their own routers on common compute (x86)
>> with VPP? I'm considering it as I'm looking for a cheap, fast peering
>> router. I haven't seen much written about that type of solution so I was
>> wondering if anyone here has experience to share.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ross
>>
>