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Re: Gigabit Linux Routers

  • From: Ingo Flaschberger
  • Date: Thu Dec 18 07:13:28 2008

Dear Eugeniu,

OS:
Freebsd:
pros: very stable, quagge runs very well, fastforwarding support,
    simple traffic shaping, interrupt less polling supported
cons: only 1 route for each network, vrrp failover is not easy to
    implement with quagga and ospf, no multipath routing
Linux:
pros: more than 1 route for each network possible,
    interrupt less polling should be supported?
    fastforwarding ?
cons: no multipath routing
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Are you sure ? Because there is an option in the kernel, under advanced routing setup to enable multipath routing.
And also, with iproute2, you can add multiple gateways with different/equal weights for a specific prefix

Multipath, yes, but flow-based, not per packet. There exists a patch for 2.4 kernel, but not for 2.6 Or tinker with iptables.

Kind regards,
	Ingo Flaschberger