Re: Quagga as border router

Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 21:46:02 +1000
From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 23:54:49 -0400
Richard A Steenbergen <ras@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Honestly, FreeBSD routing code is pretty poor as far as a modern router
goes. If you throw enough CPU at it you can brute force your way through
plenty of things, but in the context of modern commercial routers it
doesn't even play in the same league (even for a software-only router).

Interesting.... what is the golden aim of software based router we should be
trying to reach?

IMHO, comparing routing code in software vs. hardware routing, or vs a
RTOS seems a bit useless (unless the comparison is something like 'we
could do things much faster this way, but that would force us to go
down the path of hard RT OS..) Which is different to saying 'well,
this and that part of x and Y are inefficient / too expensive for the
latest cpu models."

I'm not bagging you , but there's always the balance to be had -
something very flexible (as *BSD / Linux ) vs something very rigid
(programmatically) but very fast / scalable... i'm interested in
seeing how / whether we efficiency can be increased without losing the
flexibility (of course, @ the cost of time,etc...something needs to
give :D )

Ever run into a non-existent 'olive'? Or even a J series Juniper?
Juniper put together a very impressive software based routing system
that is FreeBSD based.
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