[nog] Software routers

[Marian Marinov]

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On 07/30/2014 01:57 PM, Dragomir Zhelev wrote:
> I choose FreeBSD over NetBSD cause I have more experience with first one.
> 
> Preffer Linux over FreeBSD for few reasons :
> 
> 1. More experience. 2. No big differences in performance. 3. Was needed to do additional settings, recompile kernel
> and drivers for FreeBSD to work fine. 4. I think iptables is more flexible than ipfw, but the expense of
> performance may be ...

You use ipfw and not pf? Why?

Marian

> 
> 
> On 30.07.2014 13:46, Marian Marinov wrote: On 07/30/2014 01:32 PM, Dragomir Zhelev wrote:
>>>> Hi Marian,
>>>> 
>>>> I have such machine and you can ask Vasil Kolev to give you access to it. It's tested with 4 full BGP tables
>>>> and 2M pps on 6-7 Gbit/s flood with FreeBSD, but I think Linux  with kernel 3.x will be better choice.
> Could you share, why do you think Linux would be a better choice? Also why did you chose FreeBSD over NetBSD for
> it?
> 
> Marian
> 
>>>> Kind Regards!
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 30.07.2014 13:18, Marian Marinov wrote: Hi, I'm preparing to build a redundant router setup for a client
>>>> of mine.
>>>> 
>>>> The requirements are routing up to 10Gbit/s with relatively low pps(for these speeds). And having full BGP
>>>> table running on the same machine.
>>>> 
>>>> I'm considering using Linux but I'm curious would you advise me to go to BSD and if so, which, NetBSD or
>>>> FreeBSD?
>>>> 
>>>> And since this will be my first attempt at building such routers, do you have any suggestion for the
>>>> hardware(CPU, RAM, NICs)?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Marian
>>>> 
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> -- Marian Marinov Founder & CEO of 1H Ltd. Jabber/GTalk: hackman at jabber.org ICQ: 7556201 Mobile: +359 886 660 270
> 
> 
> -- Dragomir Zhelev CEO Delta SoftMedia OOD Cellular: +359 895 66 99 79 E-mail: drago at delta.bg Web: Delta.BG 
> <http://delta.bg>

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Marian Marinov
Founder & CEO of 1H Ltd.
Jabber/GTalk: hackman at jabber.org
ICQ: 7556201
Mobile: +359 886 660 270
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