[LinuxUsers] Researching Vyatta for routing

[joel.witherspoon at gmail.com]

On Mar 6, 2009 9:19am, David Kaiser <dkaiser at cdk.com> wrote:


> I saw the Vyatta router stuff at SCALE, and I decided to do some

> research. I found this well-written blog post comparing Vyatta to Cisco.



> http://mickgregg.blogspot.com/2007/05/is-there-floss-alternative-to-cisco.html





> I am now on the quest for just the right hardware to run a router on. I

> know Vyatta says you can get 400mb/s if you use PCI-Express ethernet

> cards. Honestly, I want something that fits in a 1U rack and doesn't

> need fans - so I might have to skip the PCI-express option. Do you know

> of any good 1U (or 2U) rack servers that run something like a 1.6Ghz

> Atom or similar CPU that can be run with a large heatsink or minimal fan

> - I really don't want to hear fan noise from this thing.

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