Hello Clement, even the most entry level server these days will meet your requirements. Bird is very lean, a system with 2 cores and 4 gbps of ram is plenty for what you described.
The only thing I would suggest is you look at Intel NIC’s like the i340 or i350 which will help a great deal if you approach anywhere near 1 gbps or a high number of small packets. Cheers, Mike -- Michael McConnell WINK Streaming; email: mich...@winkstreaming.com <mailto:mich...@winkstreaming.com> phone: +1 312 281-5433 x 7400 cell: +506 8706-2389 skype: wink-michael web: http://winkstreaming.com <http://winkstreaming.com/> > On Mar 7, 2017, at 7:57 AM, Clément Guivy <clem...@guivy.fr> wrote: > > 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 can’t 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
