Low voltage server/appliance for bird.

[Andrew]

usual desktop MBs works for 10+ years in 24/7 (maybe - requiring 
capacitors replacement, but it was an old scrap with plain electrolytic 
capacitors, not modern boards with polymer capacitors). and main 
troubles were usually with PSUs.

anyway, BGP allows redundancy, and RR cluster with simple backbone 
routing (RIP/OSPF) for default route propagation makes single device 
failure effect negligible.

and the most important thing in softrouters are NICs - I recommend Intel 
ones.

also, it'll be good to run it on some embedded distro (we are using 
LEAF) which works from ramdisk - it'll reduce risk of data corruption on 
power loss because storage is mounted only at boot time, or when configs 
are saved.

On 11/13/24 18:42, Mike Neo wrote:
> 2-3 peers with full Internet routing table, but the number of routes 
> and traffic is only a matter of equipment parameters, while the key is 
> the manufacturer, who does things like e.g.
>
> https://www.amazon.pl/HUNSN-Firewall-Appliance-Redundancy-RJ54k/dp/B0CST1BNL9/
>
> It's about a good and tested supplier who delivers equipment in a 
> quality that guarantees failure-free operation, and not that it will 
> stop working after 6 months :)
>
> Thanks
>
> śr., 13 lis 2024 o 13:16 Andrew <nitr0 at seti.kr.ua> napisał(a):
>
>     1-2 gbps can easily be routed by scrap like LGA775 core2. 4 gbps is
>     successfully routed by old xeon X3420 (even conntrack is enabled)
>
>     any fresh Atom/Pentium N (or ULV CPU) can easily route 1-2 gbps.
>
>     On 11/13/24 13:38, mirsal wrote:
>     > 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!
>     >
>
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