Multihomed BGP linux router

Question

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..

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 08 '10 at 20:19

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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 08 '10 at 20:19

pQd

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Are people still using BIRD (http://bird.network.cz/) ? – Tom O'Connor Oct 08 '10 at 22:33
@Tom O'Connor - only production installations of bgp routing under linux that i saw were based on quagga. – pQd Oct 09 '10 at 06:53
@TomO'Connor oh yes, usage of BIRD is quite heavy, take a look at this: https://www.euro-ix.net/documents/1024-Euro-IX-IXP-Report-pdf – Marek Sebera Nov 24 '12 at 15:06
Archive of above PDF: https://web.archive.org/web/20140525195833/https://www.euro-ix.net/documents/1024-Euro-IX-IXP-Report-pdf – NiKiZe Aug 15 '21 at 14:39

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 08 '10 at 20:47

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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 08 '10 at 20:47

Mark Henderson

I wasn't aware that PFSense had BGP capability. – Tom O'Connor Oct 08 '10 at 22:00
@Tom - it's available as the `openbgpd` package – Mark Henderson Oct 08 '10 at 22:17
If you're going BSD, I would suggest using olive: http://juniperolive.blogspot.com/2009/02/juniper-olive.html – Joe Oct 08 '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 08 '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 09 '10 at 04:43

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 08 '10 at 22:07

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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 08 '10 at 22:07

Hubert Kario

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quagga forked [de-facto] dead code of zebra project. see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quagga_%28software%29#Name – pQd Oct 09 '10 at 19:31

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