I am a believer of not having to re-invent the wheel... Having said that.. have you looked at 'purpose built appliances' e.g.
http://www.lannerinc.com/ http://us.axiomtek.com/ If you are looking for a full router.... Consider such as these... http://www.linktechs.net/ http://www.maxxwave.com/ and there are a few others but the concept is the same Personally, I am not a believer in making a single device be the do all / end all of everything.. While one can do everything on a big server .. however breaking things out e.g. voip trans-coding and routing make maintenance, availability, and ability to create redundancy much more practical. Regards Faisal Imtiaz Snappy Internet & Telecom ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nick Cameo" <sym...@gmail.com> > To: nanog@nanog.org > Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2013 11:33:13 AM > Subject: The Making of a Router > > Hello Everyone, > > We are looking to put together a 2u server with a few PCIe 3 x8 > (recommendations appreciated). The router will take a voip transcoding > line card, and will act as an edge router for a telecom company. > > For things like BGP (Quagga, Zebra, all that lovely stuff!!!), static > routes, and firewall capabilities we are thinking gentoo linux > stripped for sure however, what about the BSDs? FreeBSD or OpenBSD. > Any comments, feedback, does, and don'ts are much appreciated. > > Kind Regards, > > Nick. > >
