Re: Quagga as border router

2007-09-21 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 23:54:49 -0400 Richard A Steenbergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Honestly, FreeBSD routing code is pretty poor as far as a modern router > goes. If you throw enough CPU at it you can brute force your way through > plenty of things, but in the context of modern commercial rou

Re: Quagga as border router

2007-09-21 Thread Steve Bertrand
> I'm not saying you should use polling. I'm saying that not using polling > makes for more context switches. 64bit registers are twice as large as > 32bit registers. There will be a bigger penalty on stack/memory usage > and therefore slower transitions from one context to another (read: > handlin

Re: Quagga as border router

2007-09-21 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Folks have been asking about XORP in this thread. XORP can take a full BGP feed just fine as long as you have enough memory.; for a full default-free-zone feed, you are looking at in the region of 1GB - 1.5GB, perhaps less if you use aggregation. If you look at the NSDI '05 paper you'll see t

Re: Quagga as border router

2007-09-21 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 04:52:05PM +0100, Bruce M. Simpson wrote: > Folks have been asking about XORP in this thread. > > XORP can take a full BGP feed just fine as long as you have enough > memory.; for a full default-free-zone feed, you are looking at in the > region of 1GB - 1.5GB, perhaps le

Re: Quagga as border router

2007-09-21 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:28:30 -0700 > From: Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > * Yuri Lukin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070920 16:49] wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:24:09 -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote > > > > > > Juniper is based on FreeBSD. ;-) > > > > > > > O

Re: Quagga as border router

2007-09-21 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 21:46:02 +1000 > From: Norberto Meijome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 23:54:49 -0400 > Richard A Steenbergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Honestly, FreeBSD routing code is pretty poor as far as a modern router > > goes. If yo

Re: Quagga as border router

2007-09-21 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 09:46:02PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: > Richard A Steenbergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Honestly, FreeBSD routing code is pretty poor as far as a modern router > > goes. If you throw enough CPU at it you can brute force your way through > > plenty of things, bu

tcp listen problem

2007-09-21 Thread Jeff
We are seeing an intermittent problem with FreeBSD 6.2 and our custom web server application, where incoming listens will sometimes not be passed to our application to be accepted. It is as if the listen queue is "clogged" somehow, and all incoming listens are blocked from being passed to our appli

Re: Creation of carp interface on amd64 spins

2007-09-21 Thread Christopher Chen
On 9/20/07, Christopher Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/20/07, Max Laier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 20 September 2007, Christopher Chen wrote: > > > Hi: > > > > > > I'm running 6.2-RELEASE on some Pentium D's running and amd64 port. > > > > > > I'm doing some mildly interesti

how to use iic(4)

2007-09-21 Thread Ian Smith
This drew a blank in -questions. I don't know where else to post it, so I'm hoping someone here might be able to spare me a clue. We're building a small board with two AVR Tiny MCUs chatting to each other over an opto-isolated I2C-compatible bus, hopefully at 400kbps. Hoping to use the iicbb(4)