I'm sure they will make it work but there a long list of issues using PCs as routers that still applies capex goes to opex.
-----Original Message----- From: Adrian Chadd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 21 January 2008 02:23 To: Jeff McAdams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Cost per prefix [was: request for help w/ ATT and terminology] On Sun, Jan 20, 2008, Jeff McAdams wrote: > A Linux box (*BSD, pick your poison) running Quagga or similar will do > the job at an extremely low price point. > > Yeah, again, not gonna want to pass gigs of traffic through it, but the > same concept does still apply. I dunno, the *NIXes seem suddenly interested in fixing up their internal network code to try and handle 10GE stuff "better". You might find that someone decides to drop in a crazy-looking intel e1000 NIC driver at some point thats tailored towards forwarding 64 byte frames at gige rate. The commercial guys hacking on FreeBSD routers/bridges keep telling me they've done it w/ custom coding on intel NICs on decent-looking PCIe hardware. It doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility nowdays. Adrian
