Dear Eugeniu,
OS: Freebsd: pros: very stable, quagge runs very well, fastforwarding support, simple traffic shaping, interrupt less polling supported cons: only 1 route for each network, vrrp failover is not easy to implement with quagga and ospf, no multipath routing Linux: pros: more than 1 route for each network possible, interrupt less polling should be supported? fastforwarding ? cons: no multipath routing ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Are you sure ? Because there is an option in the kernel, under advanced routing setup to enable multipath routing. And also, with iproute2, you can add multiple gateways with different/equal weights for a specific prefix
Multipath, yes, but flow-based, not per packet. There exists a patch for 2.4 kernel, but not for 2.6 Or tinker with iptables. Kind regards, Ingo Flaschberger