if you want build by yourself I will suggest gentoo and/or freebsd with bird (http://bird.network.cz/) for routing stuff (maybe with 10G nics).
Don't put all this in one box. +1 On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Nick Cameo <sym...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > We are looking to put together a 2u server with a few PCIe 3 x8 > (recommendations appreciated). The router will take a voip transcoding > line card, and will act as an edge router for a telecom company. > > For things like BGP (Quagga, Zebra, all that lovely stuff!!!), static > routes, and firewall capabilities we are thinking gentoo linux > stripped for sure however, what about the BSDs? FreeBSD or OpenBSD. > Any comments, feedback, does, and don'ts are much appreciated. > > Kind Regards, > > Nick. > > -- Ciao, Alessandro