[nog] Software routers

[Dragomir Zhelev]

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 ...


On 30.07.2014 13:46, Marian Marinov wrote:
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> 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
>>
>> -- Marian Marinov Founder & CEO of 1H Ltd. Jabber/GTalk: hackman at jabber.org ICQ: 7556201 Mobile: +359 886 660 270
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> Marian Marinov
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Dragomir Zhelev
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Delta SoftMedia OOD
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