usual desktop MBs works for 10+ years in 24/7 (maybe - requiring
capacitors replacement, but it was an old scrap with plain electrolytic
capacitors, not modern boards with polymer capacitors). and main
troubles were usually with PSUs.
anyway, BGP allows redundancy, and RR cluster with simple backbone
routing (RIP/OSPF) for default route propagation makes single device
failure effect negligible.
and the most important thing in softrouters are NICs - I recommend Intel
ones.
also, it'll be good to run it on some embedded distro (we are using
LEAF) which works from ramdisk - it'll reduce risk of data corruption on
power loss because storage is mounted only at boot time, or when configs
are saved.
On 11/13/24 18:42, Mike Neo wrote:
2-3 peers with full Internet routing table, but the number of routes
and traffic is only a matter of equipment parameters, while the key is
the manufacturer, who does things like e.g.
https://www.amazon.pl/HUNSN-Firewall-Appliance-Redundancy-RJ54k/dp/B0CST1BNL9/
It's about a good and tested supplier who delivers equipment in a
quality that guarantees failure-free operation, and not that it will
stop working after 6 months :)
Thanks
śr., 13 lis 2024 o 13:16 Andrew <ni...@seti.kr.ua> napisał(a):
1-2 gbps can easily be routed by scrap like LGA775 core2. 4 gbps is
successfully routed by old xeon X3420 (even conntrack is enabled)
any fresh Atom/Pentium N (or ULV CPU) can easily route 1-2 gbps.
On 11/13/24 13:38, mirsal wrote:
> Hello Mike :)
>
> On Wednesday, November 13th, 2024 at 10:55 AM, Mike Neo
<neomike...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am looking for a 1U rack platform with 1x or 2x psu with low
power consumption for a bird-based bgp router (Ubuntu). The
supported traffic is expected to be ~1-2Gbps. Can anyone recommend
a tested solution?
> That will depend heavily of how many routes it needs to hold and
how many routing updates it will need to process. (bird is part of
the control plane, it does not play any role in the actual
forwarding of packets so throughput is not really relevant to
bird) Important questions would be, is it expected to hold and
process a full Internet routing table? How many peers / transit
providers are expected ?
>
> Handling more than gigabit-ish will require either a fast CPU or
some sort of data-plane hardware acceleration, the former
competing with the need for low power consumption, while the
latter might not be easy to pull off using a general purpose
operating system.
>
> As for an appliance recommendation, I've been very satisfied
with the Traverse Ten64 which probably meets your requirements:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/traverse-technologies/ten64
>
> Cheers!
>
