On Thursday, January 01, 2015 11:37:25 PM Baldur Norddahl wrote: > Is there a good reason to use actual router hardware for > the route reflector role?
Nope. It used to be code maturity - but major vendors are supporting service-grade code on VM's. > Even a cheap server has more > CPU and memory. If it is not in the forwarding path, > this is a computing task - not a move packets at line > speed task. Agree. > Are anyone using Bird, Quagga etc. for this? Wish I could - to be honest, these don't give me enough comfort for a production network. We use Quagga on FreeBSD for Anycast-this-&-that - from that experience, I'd not use it for backbone routing. YMMV. Mark.
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