Does anyone has any current experience of how much bandwidth you can actualy push thru a router system using like freebsd as OS and zebra as routing system?
I have read a lot about it but the articles where pretty old. What about the new dualcore ddr3 systems now? Some Mainboards can push up to 1.5gbit/s thru their bus.
I put together a router running Zebra(yes, I know, should have used Quagga) with a few public ip addresses taking in a full BGP table.
There is a Win2k3 server behind the router running routing and remote access for VPN clients to connect to. Our team's project was to get the win2k3 server VPN clients out onto the public internet with public IP addresses.
I installed another NIC card onto the Win2k3 server and connected it with the router, and assigned the router and the server a private IP address. Both are pingable from both devices.
I then had a VPN client connect in, RRAS assigned the client a public IP address, the router was able to ping the VPN client and so was the Win2k3 server.
I tried pinging the VPN client from another machine on the network with a default gateway pointed toward the router, and there is no response.
Is there something I don't know about with Zebra and Redhat?
Assuming you were going to build an open source router, what hardware would you use to do so? What factors of the hardware used would make the most performance increase in the open source router?
1.Does the bus speed pay a significant role in the routing capabilities?
2.How much does processor speed and cache size affect the routing performance?
3.Should I use ECC ram, or can I use faster DDR3 ram?
4.Would using a SSD as the primary hard drive be wise as they have extremely fast read times compared to regular hard drives?
5.Would you go with Intel or AMD CPUs? I am assuming that bus speeds play a significant role in the routing capabilities. AMD and Intel seem to rate their buss speeds in a different way. What would you recommend?
6.What type of NIC’s should I use? I know that they should be PCI-E cards because they have the fastest busses right?
7.Does anyone make interface cards for other type of network connections like DS3’s or T1’s for use with Linux systems?
8.Can you rate the performance of a high-speed server running Quagga compared to a Cisco 7206VXR with NPE-300/400 or a 6509 with SUP1/2 cards?
