> When I wrote my book, I mostly looked at Cisco for this, and > apart from Cisco to FreeBSD and Linux. The logic is that on a > Cisco, you can build a good tunnel box (6to4 or manual > tunnels) on a C7200 or some other box that has a decent CPU > that can do the tunneling in software. Quite possibly a > Juniper can do the same with hardware support (although I > don't know that and it's also very possible that they can't > do it in hardware or with decent speed in software) but there > are no cheap(er) Juniper boxes that are suitable for > deployment as a 5 - 200 Mbps tunnel box, in my opinion.
Are you saying that 6to4 relay servers should be dedicated to that task? I.e. you should either dedicate a pair of routers per PoP or set up a couple of BSD/Linux boxes per PoP? --Michael Dillon