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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">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.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">anyway, BGP allows redundancy, and RR
cluster with simple backbone routing (RIP/OSPF) for default route
propagation makes single device failure effect negligible.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">and the most important thing in
softrouters are NICs - I recommend Intel ones.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">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. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/13/24 18:42, Mike Neo wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">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.<br>
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<a
href="https://www.amazon.pl/HUNSN-Firewall-Appliance-Redundancy-RJ54k/dp/B0CST1BNL9/"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.amazon.pl/HUNSN-Firewall-Appliance-Redundancy-RJ54k/dp/B0CST1BNL9/</a><br>
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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 :)
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<div>Thanks</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">śr., 13 lis 2024 o
13:16 Andrew <<a href="mailto:nitr0@seti.kr.ua"
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style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">1-2
gbps can easily be routed by scrap like LGA775 core2. 4 gbps
is <br>
successfully routed by old xeon X3420 (even conntrack is
enabled)<br>
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any fresh Atom/Pentium N (or ULV CPU) can easily route 1-2
gbps.<br>
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On 11/13/24 13:38, mirsal wrote:<br>
> Hello Mike :)<br>
><br>
> On Wednesday, November 13th, 2024 at 10:55 AM, Mike Neo
<<a href="mailto:neomikemac@gmail.com" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">neomikemac@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
>> 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?<br>
> 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 ?<br>
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> 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.<br>
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> As for an appliance recommendation, I've been very
satisfied with the Traverse Ten64 which probably meets your
requirements: <a
href="https://www.crowdsupply.com/traverse-technologies/ten64"
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.crowdsupply.com/traverse-technologies/ten64</a><br>
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> Cheers!<br>
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