I remembered where we were preparing to migrate our core routers I loaded up the original (256MB) rPi with BIRD [1] and some Perl script to load and mangle a bi

I remembered where we were preparing to migrate our core routers I loaded up the original (256MB) rPi with BIRD [1] and some Perl script to load and mangle a bit the "internet" (dump of all rotes on RIPE collector) to it, 500k something routes. Then used it as "The Internet", serving BGP to the new routers under test. I was quite surprised how not only it managed to fit, it loaded routes to Linux kernel much faster than the new shiny expensive Juniper box managed to. I have resisted temptation to put it in black box with red LED on the top. * [1] https://bird.network.cz/ https://bird.network.cz/ I'd actually love "enterprise raspberry", some small machine that we could shove 3-6 of them in 1RU, but once you add enterprise tax and all of the doodas to make it manageable (OOB management), it gets expensive enough to rival "just an old server".