> -----Original Message----- > From: Dobbins, Roland [mailto:rdobb...@arbor.net] > Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 11:56 AM > To: North American Network Operators' Group > Subject: Re: vyatta for bgp > > On Sep 13, 2011, at 1:42 AM, Ben Albee wrote: > > > Does anybody currently use vyatta as a bgp router for their company? > > The days of public-facing software-based routers were over years ago - you > need an ASIC-based edge router, else you'll end up getting zorched. > How do you come to this conclusion? I think a software-based router for enterprise level (let's say on the 1G per provider level) can handle a fair amount of zorching. I checked the Cisco and Juniper docs and neither vendor is anywhere near releasing their anit-zorching ASICs.
Mike