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"I do not know of an open source router hardware that is available (at ISP scale)" You're basically correct but it's worth remembering that it is possible to a
by rsync 11y ago
"I do not know of an open source router hardware that is available (at ISP scale)"
You're basically correct but it's worth remembering that it is possible to add a bunch of quad nics to whitebox and run bpf on it, courtesy of one of the BSDs and do real routing at an ISP scale.
That would be completely open source (and quite secure).
Probably pretty performant if you knew what you were doing.
- snowy 11y agoyep, but you are never going to get a generic processor architecture to have anywhere near the performance of custom silicon ASICs designed for specifically for routing packets. No matter what software you put on top of it. Its never going to work in a core network routing 100s of gigs of traffic. So it's not going to work for ISPs