Hi, *Which linux distro do you prefer for stability, security etc.?* I use FreeBSD and CentOS for route servers. You can choose your favorite linux distro. *Is it good choice to install Bird as vmware vm?* You can run Bird on small machine but please concern about the traffic and packet per second. Small server with dedicated network interface would be better than VM. Just my 2cent Best regards, David S. ------------------------------------------------ e. david@zeromail.us w. pnyet.web.id On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 4:29 PM, Mike Neo <neomikemac@gmail.com> wrote:

ok, thx

but what about my 2 questions?

Which linux distro do you prefer for stability, security etc.? Is it good choice to install Bird as vmware vm?

BR

2017-12-06 9:05 GMT+01:00 Mo Shivji <moyaze@linx.net>:

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On 5 Dec 2017, at 21:50, Mike Neo <neomikemac@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I think about migration from old cisco 6500 to Bird for bgp (2 feeds, traffic 400Mb)

Could you tell me, is possible to find the best practices doc? Which linux distro do you prefer for stability, security etc.? Is it good choice to install Bird as vmware vm?

Hi

Some good information on how to configure BIRD is at

https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/labs/bird/wikis/Examples

Regards

Mo

Hi, How about "kernel bypass" to increase the network performance? In my case, I installed netmap to increase the network performance and I'm not sure if it's work on virtual machine. CMIIW Best regards, David S. ------------------------------------------------ e. david@zeromail.us w. pnyet.web.id p. 087881216110 On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 3:48 AM, Lauro, John <jlauro@umflint.edu> wrote:

My 2cents, only put something on a small dedicated server that is not mission critical.

You can achieve over 10gbps under vmware, and if you need more memory, add it without rebooting... more cpu, do it live without reboot... faster cpu becomes available, then move it live without downtime. Need to reboot it takes seconds instead of minutes, hardware failure, let vmware reboot it on different hardware automatically (or setup redundant vms on different hosts). Myths about traffic and packet per second are just FUD. Not saying you can't get a benchmark to be almost 10% better on the same hardware for workloads that are not cpu bound (cpu bound not even that much difference), but you are better off buying a 10% faster machine and take the advantages of vmware. Not to mention other advantages such as snapshots, etc... Hardware and licensing might cost more, but not as much as down time or time saved in productivity.

How would a small server with dedicated network interface be better?

________________________________________ From: Bird-users [bird-users-bounces@network.cz] on behalf of David S. [ david@zeromail.us] Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2017 5:31 AM To: Mike Neo Cc: bird-users@network.cz Subject: Re: Bird - hardware, vm.

Hi,

Which linux distro do you prefer for stability, security etc.? I use FreeBSD and CentOS for route servers. You can choose your favorite linux distro.

Is it good choice to install Bird as vmware vm? You can run Bird on small machine but please concern about the traffic and packet per second. Small server with dedicated network interface would be better than VM.

Just my 2cent

Best regards, David S.

It makes no sense to use virtualization in the cases of the router. CPU and memory are not so important. It is important to have the necessary network cards (2x10G SFP+). We successfully use Supermicro X10SDV-4C + -TP4F-O. On 10/12/17 23:48, Lauro, John wrote:

My 2cents, only put something on a small dedicated server that is not mission critical.

You can achieve over 10gbps under vmware, and if you need more memory, add it without rebooting... more cpu, do it live without reboot... faster cpu becomes available, then move it live without downtime. Need to reboot it takes seconds instead of minutes, hardware failure, let vmware reboot it on different hardware automatically (or setup redundant vms on different hosts). Myths about traffic and packet per second are just FUD. Not saying you can't get a benchmark to be almost 10% better on the same hardware for workloads that are not cpu bound (cpu bound not even that much difference), but you are better off buying a 10% faster machine and take the advantages of vmware. Not to mention other advantages such as snapshots, etc... Hardware and licensing might cost more, but not as much as down time or time saved in productivity.

How would a small server with dedicated network interface be better?

________________________________________ From: Bird-users [bird-users-bounces@network.cz] on behalf of David S. [david@zeromail.us] Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2017 5:31 AM To: Mike Neo Cc: bird-users@network.cz Subject: Re: Bird - hardware, vm.

Hi,

Which linux distro do you prefer for stability, security etc.? I use FreeBSD and CentOS for route servers. You can choose your favorite linux distro.

Is it good choice to install Bird as vmware vm? You can run Bird on small machine but please concern about the traffic and packet per second. Small server with dedicated network interface would be better than VM.

Just my 2cent

Best regards, David S.

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