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Re: Zebra/linux device production networking?
From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels () cistron nl>
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 18:46:29 +0000 (UTC)
In article <cistron.Pine.LNX.4.62.0606070809350.15086 () sokol elan net>, william(at)elan.net <william () elan net> wrote:
you should be able to set linux that is secure as freebsd. There are some differences in the routing code whereas Linux is designed with per-flow based switching in mind (which works very well when used as a server)
Nobody noticed, but Linux 2.6 has alternative FIB code you can select when compiling the kernel. Yes, it is fairly new and I'm not sure it is production quality, but still. The config option is IP_FIB_TRIE, for the LC-trie algorithm. It's supposed to be something like CEF. Mike.
Current thread:
- Re: Zebra/linux device production networking?, (continued)
- Re: Zebra/linux device production networking? Suresh Ramasubramanian (Jun 07)
- Re: Zebra/linux device production networking? (summary) Nick Burke (Jun 07)
- Re: Zebra/linux device production networking? (summary) Jon Lewis (Jun 07)
- Re: Zebra/linux device production networking? (summary) Stephen Stuart (Jun 07)
- Re: Zebra/linux device production networking? (summary) Jake Khuon (Jun 07)
- Re: Zebra/linux device production networking? Joseph S D Yao (Jun 07)
- Re: Zebra/linux device production networking? (summary) Nick Burke (Jun 07)
- Re: Zebra/linux device production networking? Stephane Bortzmeyer (Jun 12)
- RE: Zebra/linux device production networking? Mark D. Kaye (Jun 06)
- Re: Zebra/linux device production networking? David Coulson (Jun 06)
- RE: Zebra/linux device production networking? Michael . Dillon (Jun 07)
- Re: Zebra/linux device production networking? Miquel van Smoorenburg (Jun 07)
- Re: Zebra/linux device production networking? Justin W. Pauler (Jun 07)
- Re: Zebra/linux device production networking? alex (Jun 07)
- Re: Zebra/linux device production networking? Justin W. Pauler (Jun 07)
- Re: Zebra/linux device production networking? Suresh Ramasubramanian (Jun 07)