System requirements for BIRD

[Sergey Popovich]

В письме от 23 декабря 2013 16:26:58 пользователь Ruben Laban написал:
> Wow, thanks a lot for the extensive response, Sergey! This gives me
> plenty of stuff to research further.
> 
> I like the iptables addrtype "trick". I was focusing on how to maintain
> a list of local IPs to exclude from the conntrack exclude. But this is
> way cleaner, great!

Be carefully with new kernels, they contain lots of new features, much 
functionality and performance enhancements, however as with any products they
sometimes introduce regressions, bugs.

For software router I would suggest to use stable longterm kernel branches
such as 3.2, 3.4 and new 3.10 with a lot of performance improvements, 
enhancements, but as for me it not yet ready for software router (few patch 
levels solve this? :-)).

3.2, 3.4 mostly same in their functionalities, 3.2 is very stable.

> 
> This might even be a good start for an optimizations page on the Bird wiki?

I do not think so, this is more related to software packet forwarding things
not for BIRD as routing suite itself. Probably better places exist for such
topic.

> 
> Regards,
> Ruben
> 
> > ----
> > 
> > There are lots of things to consider to, but these are essential.
> > 
> >> I'm currently about to replace some of my software routers, and have
> >> been looking around for optimizations like these.
> >> 
> >> Regards,
> >> Ruben

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