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Subject: Gigabit Linux Routers
From: fweimer at bfk.de (Florian Weimer)
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:08:09 +0100
In-reply-to: <[email protected]> (Alex Thurlow's message of "Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:33:24 -0600")
References: <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]>

* Alex Thurlow:

> Depending on your WAN interface, there's actually a decent amount of
> stuff out there.  The cheaper alternative to me has actually always been
> to get some old cisco hardware with the proper interfaces and use it for
> media conversion.  I have a 6500 with Sup1As in it.  It can't take BGP
> feeds with the amount of memory it has, but with the right cards, it
> will give my router Ethernet and push a few million pps with no problem.

But you have to ask your peer to enable eBGP multihop, right?  Or are
there some TTL tricks you can play?

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References:
- Gigabit Linux Routers
  - From: chris at ghostbusters.co.uk (Chris)
- Gigabit Linux Routers
  - From: eugen at imacandi.net (Eugeniu Patrascu)
- Gigabit Linux Routers
  - From: fweimer at bfk.de (Florian Weimer)
- Gigabit Linux Routers
  - From: alex at blastro.com (Alex Thurlow)

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