Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 10:53:09 -0500 From: Aaron Gibson <agibson@confabulator.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Telecom Message-ID: <44DA04E5.8030901@confabulator.net> In-Reply-To: <20060802131420.79edspqrwgok4s8s@216.219.94.118> References: <20060802131420.79edspqrwgok4s8s@216.219.94.118>
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root@rithy4u.net wrote: > Dear All, > > Can we use FreeBSD in Telecom industry? If I want to build an Internet > Backbone which connect across country in asia. Is it suitable? How is > its stability of routing compare to Cisco? > > Rgds, > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > juniper routers do exactly this (freebsd for network routing protocols, asics for hardware forwarding). Not sure how they compare to Ci$co (I'm assuming cost is driving factor for evaluating freebsd as a routing platform). freebsd can do bgp/ospf/etc with software such as: quagga or zebra, or the newer xorp. some people have used freebsd as a routing platform for large networks, see occaid.org (their network was built with freebsd/quagga and ip-ip tunnels, although they did have some juniper m5s) what you will probably find is that routing in software may not offer the performance required for a backbone network. This is of course dependent on your needs, and some people (occaid) have achieved line-rate (small packets) ip forwarding with intel pro 1000 cards and some patches to enable fastforwarding for ipv6 in freebsd. hope this is of some help. I can't give any numbers with regard to stability -- quagga/zebra did have some issues as I recall. for large amounts of traffic it may help to enable device driver polling to reduce interrupt overhead. --Aaron
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