Re: Quagga as border router
- From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:10:06 -0400
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 09:46:02PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote:
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?
Well for starters, to have a routing stack that is based on any modern
techniques developed in the last 20 years or so. It may not even matter,
there is plenty to FreeBSD that has absolutely nothing to do with routing,
and if all you're doing is throw 5Mbps at a core 2 duo it really doesn't
matter how the routing code is implemented. :) There are plenty of good
folks who understand all of this perfectly well (for example Andre
Oppermann), who are working hard to modernize fbsd's routing code, so I
have full faith that it will be fixed eventually. :)
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 10:10:06AM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
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.
Ever tried to use an Olive for anything more than a cute lab trick or
route-server? Everything important is missing, because there has been no
reason for Juniper to implement it for the FreeBSD based portion. J-series
doesn't change any of this, all they did was implement a software emulator
for the regular PFE so that the standard JUNOS hooks could all still be
used in the same way. The packets still don't touch the FreeBSD part, and
nothing Juniper has done has "improved" the routing subsystems in any
significant way.
Mind you I'm not bashing fbsd here, I love fbsd, and Juniper's choice of
FreeBSD for what it uses it for couldn't be any better suited. But lets
not get carried away with generalities and perpetuating mistaken beliefs
about what Juniper does or does not do with fbsd. Denying the reality that
the routing code is old and antiquated doesn't help anyone, and even
Linux has started to randomly wander in to the right direction. :P
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