North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Cost per prefix [was: request for help w/ ATT and terminology]
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008, Jeff McAdams wrote: > A Linux box (*BSD, pick your poison) running Quagga or similar will do > the job at an extremely low price point. > > Yeah, again, not gonna want to pass gigs of traffic through it, but the > same concept does still apply. I dunno, the *NIXes seem suddenly interested in fixing up their internal network code to try and handle 10GE stuff "better". You might find that someone decides to drop in a crazy-looking intel e1000 NIC driver at some point thats tailored towards forwarding 64 byte frames at gige rate. The commercial guys hacking on FreeBSD routers/bridges keep telling me they've done it w/ custom coding on intel NICs on decent-looking PCIe hardware. It doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility nowdays. Adrian
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