OS choice
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
des at des.no
Fri Sep 7 06:04:23 PDT 2007
Kirc Gover <kirc.gover at yahoo.com.au> writes:
> We are in the stage of planning and research for a commercial
> development of an edge router that will be based mostly on OpenSource
> software. I would like to solicit for information and recommendation
> if FreeBSD is a suitable OS.
Yes.
> What is the usual or minimum hardware requirement? Is soekris box
> enough, or dual core or ASIC based platforms?
A soekris box probably doesn't have the I/O bandwidth nor the CPU power
to process a full BGP feed.
DES
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