RE: Bird - hardware, vm.

2017-12-10 Thread Lauro, John
rk in a vm? From: David S. [da...@zeromail.us] Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2017 4:01 PM To: Lauro, John Cc: Mike Neo; bird-users@network.cz Subject: Re: Bird - hardware, vm. Hi, How about "kernel bypass" to increase the network performance? In my case, I

Re: Bird - hardware, vm.

2017-12-10 Thread Mikhail Mayorov
vid S. > [da...@zeromail.us] > Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2017 5:31 AM > To: Mike Neo > Cc: bird-users@network.cz > Subject: Re: Bird - hardware, vm. > > Hi, > > Which linux distro do you prefer for stability, security etc.? > I use FreeBSD and CentOS for rout

Re: Bird - hardware, vm.

2017-12-10 Thread David S.
gt; > > From: Bird-users [bird-users-boun...@network.cz] on behalf of David S. [ > da...@zeromail.us] > Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2017 5:31 AM > To: Mike Neo > Cc: bird-users@network.cz > Subject: Re: Bird - hardware, vm. > > Hi, &g

RE: Bird - hardware, vm.

2017-12-10 Thread Lauro, John
AM To: Mike Neo Cc: bird-users@network.cz Subject: Re: Bird - hardware, vm. Hi, Which linux distro do you prefer for stability, security etc.? I use FreeBSD and CentOS for route servers. You can choose your favorite linux distro. Is it good choice to install Bird as vmware vm? You can run Bird on

Re: Bird - hardware, vm.

2017-12-10 Thread Martin Huněk
Hi, everybody does have a favorite distro, it is always about what works best for you. What I know, the developers of the bird are using Debian and Fedora (and are providing packages for them directly). It is advisable to use distro with longer release cycle for production and with shorter one

Re: Bird - hardware, vm.

2017-12-10 Thread Clemens Schrimpe
Just FYI: I use BIRD very successfully on Ubiquiti’s Edgerouters - from ER-X (€40) to EdgeRouter-Infitity (10Gbps → €1100). Greetings, Clemens

Re: Bird - hardware, vm.

2017-12-10 Thread David S.
Hi, *Which linux distro do you prefer for stability, security etc.?* I use FreeBSD and CentOS for route servers. You can choose your favorite linux distro. *Is it good choice to install Bird as vmware vm?* You can run Bird on small machine but please concern about the traffic and packet per secon

Re: Bird - hardware, vm.

2017-12-06 Thread Mike Neo
ok, thx but what about my 2 questions? Which linux distro do you prefer for stability, security etc.? Is it good choice to install Bird as vmware vm? BR 2017-12-06 9:05 GMT+01:00 Mo Shivji : > > On 5 Dec 2017, at 21:50, Mike Neo wrote: > > Hi, > > I think about migration from old cisco 6500 t

Re: Bird - hardware, vm.

2017-12-06 Thread Mo Shivji
> On 5 Dec 2017, at 21:50, Mike Neo wrote: > > Hi, > > I think about migration from old cisco 6500 to Bird for bgp (2 feeds, traffic > 400Mb) > > Could you tell me, is possible to find the best practices doc? > Which linux distro do you prefer for stability, security etc.? > Is it good choice

Bird - hardware, vm.

2017-12-05 Thread Mike Neo
Hi, I think about migration from old cisco 6500 to Bird for bgp (2 feeds, traffic 400Mb) Could you tell me, is possible to find the best practices doc? Which linux distro do you prefer for stability, security etc.? Is it good choice to install Bird as vmware vm? BR, Mike