В письме от 23 декабря 2013 15:10:19 пользователь Tigran Zakoyan написал:
Dear collegues,
It seems, your question is more about software routing, not BIRD as routing daemon as standalone solution only for handling route information (for example on IXP RSes).
I failed to find anything regarding the subject. Could somebody give some prompts on it?
BIRD itself as routing daemon has relatively small footprint on memory and CPU, based on my experience BIRD with 2 FV consumes < 250MB of RAM.
Particularily, is a config like
CPU: intel ATOM D2550 Dual Core 1.86G 4 thread DDR3 4Gb (or 8Gb) suitable for a 3 GBIT interface BGP router with 2 full view uplinks?
I am intending to use something like this: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/2013-New-fanless-network-1U-server-with-intel -PCI-E-1000M-6-82583v-D2550-6-Gigabit/1253878720.html
Using software routing depends mostonly on other characteristics: * What policy will be applied to traffic (ACL, QoS, BPR, etc.)? * How much traffic should be routed with software routers (in Packet Per Second (PPS) and Bits Per Second (BPS))? * Which OS would be used to perform routing?