Low voltage server/appliance for bird.

[mirsal]

Hello Mike :)

On Wednesday, November 13th, 2024 at 10:55 AM, Mike Neo <neomikemac at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am looking for a 1U rack platform with 1x or 2x psu with low power consumption for a bird-based bgp router (Ubuntu). The supported traffic is expected to be ~1-2Gbps. Can anyone recommend a tested solution?

That will depend heavily of how many routes it needs to hold and how many routing updates it will need to process. (bird is part of the control plane, it does not play any role in the actual forwarding of packets so throughput is not really relevant to bird) Important questions would be, is it expected to hold and process a full Internet routing table? How many peers / transit providers are expected ?

Handling more than gigabit-ish will require either a fast CPU or some sort of data-plane hardware acceleration, the former competing with the need for low power consumption, while the latter might not be easy to pull off using a general purpose operating system.

As for an appliance recommendation, I've been very satisfied with the Traverse Ten64 which probably meets your requirements: https://www.crowdsupply.com/traverse-technologies/ten64

Cheers!