Hoi Mike, colleagues,

On Wednesday, November 13th, 2024 at 10:55 AM, Mike Neo <neomikemac@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?

If you're willing to run VPP on Ubuntu (or Debian) can be done on very low power machines and at surprising throughput.
Take a look at for example this ~18 Watt machine: https://ipng.ch/s/articles/2024/07/05/review-r86s-jasper-lake-n6005/
Or a rack mountable ~22 Watt machine: https://ipng.ch/s/articles/2024/08/03/review-gowin-1u-2x25g-alder-lake-n305/

Both of these machines are very affordable, rack mountable (in the case of R86S with a rack-mount kit), and route 10G+ with full BGP tables.
The articles also go into some detail on the machine and CPU specs, and how those intersect with DPDK and VPP forwarding.

groet,
Pim

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