[AusNOG] Software Defined Routers

[Tim Raphael]

Overall, the article being discussed only does very precursory testing.
In my recent adventures of deploying OSS routing for mission critical services, there has to be a mix of raw performance, stability and performance with varied feature-sets (NAT, QoS, Load-Balancing etc). The article above looks at mainly basic routing and throughout. Put a few thousand hosts behind it, 100s of NAT and QoS rules later and the numbers would be more useful.

With my nonexistent free time I’d love to put more real world traffic patterns (using the likes of Ostinato/Cisco TRex) through the current leaders with equivalent, complex feature-sets for better comparisons on both virtualised and baremetal hardware (standard x86 and/or purpose built x86 like the Lannertech boxes).

- Tim

>> On 5 Oct 2019, at 12:36, Paul Wilkins <paulwilkins369 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >> "if performance matters (and it does very much so), why would you be using _anything_ virtualised at all..."
> 
> Because it's not actually possible to write meaningful SLAs for time multiplexed services.
> 
> At the end of the day I agree with Brad, if you need a performant system you want resident hardware.
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> Paul Wilkins
> 
>> On Fri, 4 Oct 2019 at 21:20, Noel Butler <noel.butler at ausics.net> wrote:
>> if performance matters (and it does very much so), why would you be using _anything_ virtualised at all...
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 03/10/2019 23:19, Guy Ellis wrote:
>>> 
>>> Has anyone bothered to evaluate TNSR which I will think replace pfsense where performance really matters?
>> -- 
>> Kind Regards,
>> 
>> Noel Butler
>> 
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