Anymore success to use multiple CPU to bind NIC to increase the performance
Thank you On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 4:52 AM, Nathan Ward <na...@daork.net> wrote: > On 22/02/2009, at 8:27 AM, Leen Besselink wrote: > > If you had to choose, it's probably smarted to go with OpenBSD, it has a >> lot better integration of packet filter, bgpd-daemon, ospf, vrrp-like, >> etc. >> > > If you have one eBGP session in your whole network, sure. > > However if you have more than one, BGP cannot do the "Prefer the path with > the lowest IGP next-hop metric" thing, as OpenBGPd does not know metrics > from OpenOSPFd. Someone commented that OpenBSD would be able to do this soon > as metrics were added in to the routing code in -current, but I have not > tried this personally and a quick couple of queries on Google didn't reveal > anything other than internal OpenOSPFd stuff. > > I have however used OpenBGPd and OpenOSPFd with great success on routers we > put at single-homed customer sites for a small business-only ISP I used to > work at. We used BGP communities to put prefixes in to PF tables, and then > shaped and accounted based on that. (Here in NZ we have a few thousand > domestic prefixes, which transit to/from is often cheaper than transit > off-shore). > > -- > Nathan Ward > > >