System requirements for BIRD

[Sergey Popovich]

В письме от 23 декабря 2013 15:10:19 пользователь Tigran Zakoyan написал:
> Dear collegues,
> 

It seems, your question is more about software routing, not BIRD as routing 
daemon as standalone solution only for handling route information (for example 
on IXP RSes).

> I failed to find anything regarding the subject. Could somebody give
> some prompts on it?

BIRD itself as routing daemon has relatively small footprint on memory
and CPU, based on my experience BIRD with 2 FV consumes < 250MB of RAM.

> 
> Particularily, is a config like
> 
> CPU: intel ATOM D2550
> Dual Core 1.86G 4 thread
> DDR3 4Gb (or 8Gb)  suitable for a 3 GBIT interface BGP router with 2
> full view uplinks?
> 
> I am intending to use something like this:
> http://www.aliexpress.com/item/2013-New-fanless-network-1U-server-with-intel
> -PCI-E-1000M-6-82583v-D2550-6-Gigabit/1253878720.html

Using software routing depends mostonly on other characteristics:

  * What policy will be applied to traffic (ACL, QoS, BPR, etc.)?
  * How much traffic should be routed with software routers
    (in Packet Per Second (PPS) and Bits Per Second (BPS))?
  * Which OS would be used to perform routing?