Multihomed BGP linux router

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I'm in the process of researching solutions for a new network location rollout.

We are going to have two providers one on 100mbit and 50mbit commits..

I'm wondering what linux solution i could build that could handle that much traffic.

and also how it stacks up against say a Cisco 2821 with upgraded RAM..

pQd · Answer 1 · 2010-10-08 20:19:03Z

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linux box on a decent hardware can handle traffic of few hundreds mbit/s without problems.

for bgp under linux there is not much choice - quagga.

answered Oct 8 '10 at 20:19

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	Are people still using BIRD (bird.network.cz) ? – Tom O'Connor Oct 8 '10 at 22:33
	@Tom O'Connor - only production installations of bgp routing under linux that i saw were based on quagga. – pQd Oct 9 '10 at 6:53

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Mark Henderson · Answer 2 · 2010-10-08 20:47:25Z

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PFSense. It's FreeBSD not Linux, but if it's just a dedicated router machine, shouldn't really matter.

answered Oct 8 '10 at 20:47

	I wasn't aware that PFSense had BGP capability. – Tom O'Connor Oct 8 '10 at 22:00
	@Tom - it's available as the `openbgpd` package – Mark Henderson♦ Oct 8 '10 at 22:17
	If you're going BSD, I would suggest using olive: juniperolive.blogspot.com/2009/02/juniper-olive.html – Joe Oct 8 '10 at 22:19
	Yikes, Olive looks cool but I bet it breaks all kinds of terms, conditions, maybe even laws. – Tom O'Connor Oct 8 '10 at 22:30
	@Joe - you have to have a copy of the Juniper OS to start with, and if you have a Juniper router, surely you'd just keep it runnong on that? – Mark Henderson♦ Oct 9 '10 at 4:43

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Hubert Kario · Answer 3 · 2010-10-08 22:07:24Z

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I'm not sure why pQd said that there's no choice for BGP routing. Personally I heard about Zebra but never about quagga...

answered Oct 8 '10 at 22:07

quagga forked [de-facto] dead code of zebra project. see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quagga_%28software%29#Name – pQd Oct 9 '10 at 19:31

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