Re: The Making of a Router

One of the biggest advantages is the low cost of hardware allows you to maintain spare systems, reducing the time to service restoration in the event of failure. Dependability-wise, I feel that whitebox Linux systems are pretty much at Cisco levels these days, especially if running in-memory.

With your guidance, I can put together a gentoo environment that will run in memory tailored for this purpose, and would be obliged to share it with the community if anyone else is interested. N.