On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 08:20:36PM -0500, Jeff McAdams wrote:
Joe Abley wrote:
On 20-Jan-2008, at 15:34, William Herrin wrote:
Perhaps your definition of "entry level DFZ router" differs from mine. I selected a Cisco 7600 w/ sup720-3bxl or rsp720-3xcl as my baseline for an entry level DFZ router.
A new cisco 2851 can be found for under $10k and can take a gig of RAM. If your goal is to have fine-grained routing data, and not to carry gigs of traffic, that particular router is perfectly adequate.
And to take that concept to its logical extreme.
A Linux box (*BSD, pick your poison) running Quagga or similar will do the job at an extremely low price point.
So if we plug in, say, $2k for the cost of the Linux box, and compare it to the L3 switch mentioned earlier, each extra prefix saves the Internet around 50c? <grin> - Matt -- "Ah, the beauty of OSS. Hundreds of volunteers worldwide volunteering their time inventing and implementing new, exciting ways for software to suck." -- Toni Lassila, in the Monastery