Re: (PM) PM3 as BGP router

Florin Andrei (florin@mail.maronet.ro)
Sun, 12 Dec 1999 01:01:24 +0200

mark@mail.networkone.net wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Linux makes a great low end BGP router. Interfaces are extremely
> cheap. I used linux as a BGP router with great success, also lots of tools
> to examine packets, full firewalling and other aspects makes it a reasonable
> choice for routing with full tables. I recommend that you use about 128 MB
> of memory for the Linux box (overkill yes) but it is a capable and stable
> router.

It appears that a very good routing software for Linux (and *nix in
general) is Zebra: http://www.zebra.org/ It knows practically all the
important routing protocols, and works much better than its predecessors.
And, BTW, if you know Cisco, you'll be shocked: Zebra's CLI is almost a
clone of the Cisco CLI! Very neat...

-- 
Florin Andrei , florin@maronet.ro , http://www.maronet.ro/~florin/
IT Manager - Maro Tradinvest, Bucuresti, Romania
tel: +40-93-261162    ICQ: 20010694


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