Hello, I am considering the setup of BIRD as a router to handle our internet traffic. One information I fail to find is hardware requirements. My use case is as follows :
- Two transit providers, each sending a full internet view - Two peerings on an IXP (less than 100k routes each) - One iBGP session between the two BIRD routers - One eBGP session to our internal network (advertising a default route and receiving less than 500 internal routes) - Traffic would be less than 1Gbps but as I understand it, this is relevant to forwarding plane and therefore out of the scope of BIRD. Which kind of hardware would be fit for that ? especially regarding CPU and RAM. I was considering an entry-level server with low-end Xeon CPU (E5-2603, 1.7Ghz 6 cores) and 8GB RAM, does that look sufficient, insufficient, or overkill ? I cant really tell. By the way, is BIRD able to use multiple cores ? and are there hardware requirements to be careful of, disregard CPU and RAM ? Thanks. Regards, Clément Guivy
