If one has a cisco 7200, then you have a software based border router. Considerations, for a given router platform are capacity, susceptability to dos, features required etc. Depending on the capacity required a software device could do fine. If it's in front of hosting environment you want to know that it doesn't take dirt nap from a couple hundred mb/s of small packet.
Joel's widget number 2 On Sep 26, 2010, at 2:41, "Nathanael C. Cariaga" <nccari...@stluke.com.ph> wrote: > Hi All! > > > Just want to ask if anyone here had experience deploying software-based > routers to serve as perimeter / border router? How does it gauge with > hardware-based routers? Any past experiences will be very much appreciated. > > > I wanted to know because we've been asked if we want to assume full control > of the internet link (up to the router). By assuming control up to the > router, we still want to configure iBGP with our parent network so that we > can take advantage of some routes available to the parent network's gateway. > The saddest part is presently we do not have the router to serve as our > gateway this is why we are considering the use of software-based routers. > > > Thank you. >
