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vyatta for bgp
- Subject: vyatta for bgp
- From: mksmith at adhost.com (Michael K. Smith - Adhost)
- Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:08:34 +0000
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <625DBB8B2639984C8DA8F8EB45A39BB60610DDF2@neuman.orscheln.oi.local> <[email protected]>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dobbins, Roland [mailto:rdobbins at arbor.net]
> Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 11:56 AM
> To: North American Network Operators' Group
> Subject: Re: vyatta for bgp
>
> On Sep 13, 2011, at 1:42 AM, Ben Albee wrote:
>
> > Does anybody currently use vyatta as a bgp router for their company?
>
> The days of public-facing software-based routers were over years ago - you
> need an ASIC-based edge router, else you'll end up getting zorched.
>
How do you come to this conclusion? I think a software-based router for enterprise level (let's say on the 1G per provider level) can handle a fair amount of zorching. I checked the Cisco and Juniper docs and neither vendor is anywhere near releasing their anit-zorching ASICs.
Mike