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The Making of a Router
- Subject: The Making of a Router
- From: francois at menards.ca (Francois Menard)
- Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 08:47:53 -0500
- In-reply-to: <CAPkb-7AePWRkcNwa6ubD8uv7rQrrAq-Gu=J3whdDALKEEvy3Sw@mail.gmail.com>
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You could look into Noviflow!
F.
Sent from my mobile device. Apologies for any typo.
> On Dec 27, 2013, at 8:05, Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On the topic of building a software router for an ISP, has anyone tried it
> using OpenFlow? The idea is to have a Linux server run BGP and a hardware
> switch to move the packets. The switch would be programmed by the Linux
> server using the OpenFlow protocol.
>
> I am looking at the HP 5400 zl switches as the hardware platform and
> RouteFlow https://sites.google.com/site/routeflow/ to program the BGP rules.
>
> One issue is that the HP switch will only allow a limited amount of rules
> to be processed in hardware (about 4096 rules I believe). Will this be
> enough to cover most of the traffic of a FTTH ISP on the fast path?
>
> Regards,
>
> Baldur