At 10:00 PM 8/18/99 -0400, you wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 04:17:49PM -0400, Dennis wrote:
>> If thats so, then why do you have to spend $75,000. to do bandwidth
>> managerment on a full T3 on a cisco router but you can do it on a
>> reasonably powered PC quite easily?
>
>All the talk about Linux as a router raises a few questions for me:
>
>1) I noticed the array of HDLC and FR cards available from the links
> on the linuxrouter.org's web site -- however, I'm curious how these
> vendors have performed in heavy utilization?
They perform just dandily. We have customers with full T3 feeds with
mulitple BGP peers with months of uptime. BSD of course, but same animal
basically.
>3) My knowledge of the PC architecture is probably not the highest on
> the list -- assuming a 100 MHz bus with 100Mhz SDRAM slots -- are
> there any concerns on the actual bus performance? I know silly
> question -- but are there any gotchas with other boards or vendors
> who take shortcuts?
PCI bus is 33MHZ, same as a Cisco. 100Mhz is the memory bus.
>
>4) I have not seen anything yet on supporting a full BGP4 table in
> a linux router -- granted for a PC I don't forsee this as being
> a large problem since last I checked a full table was roughly 32
> Meg -- but what I am wondering is -- how well is BGP supported in
> Linux currently?
gated and zebra...many customers are sporting full BGP tables (about 17M
per view). Gated is clunky but it works...zebra is getting very close to
supplanting it.
DB
Emerging Technologies, Inc.
http://www.etinc.com
ISA and PCI T1/T3/V35/HSSI Cards for FreeBSD and LINUX
Multiport T1 and HSSI/T3 UNIX-based Routers
Bandwidth Manager
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