XORP has a great idea, but they are several years late to the party. Apparently, NSF, Intel and its other backers have failed to learn from the dot-bomb era: you can't build a successful business on the backs of a product you're giving away at no charge. Do they plan to make it up on volume?:-)
Linux enthusiasts ought to look toward more commercial companies, such as ImageStream (http://www.imagestream.com/) who has been in business 10 years, and building Linux routers for 7. Their corporate profile says they have 30K units in the field.
MontaVista (http://www.montavista.com/) has an embedded OS for PPC and ARM that would provide something more extensible and functional than XORP.
I don't recall any security patches for Linux 2.0 kernels lately.
I can't remember the last time someone tried to patch ipchains.
I don't see anyone backporting 2.6 kernel features into 2.2.
Microsoft is doing the same thing that the Linux community does every day. THAT'S A GOOD THING! Microsoft would do much better if they focused on making their current release work and less on trying to backwards compatible with everything.
Performance isn't an issue--ImageStream has a full line of commercial Linux-based routers in use in over 70 countries worldwide. They offer wirespeed performance and interfaces from T1/E1 to DS3/E3 through OC12 and OC48.
http://www.imagestream.com/
Don't take my word for it, either. ImageStream's Rebel Router with a DS3 interface was reviewed in Linux Journal and Network Computing last year. Both publications confirmed the wirespeed specification.
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XORP has a great idea, but they are several years late to the party. Apparently, NSF, Intel and its other backers have failed to learn from the dot-bomb era: you can't build a successful business on the backs of a product you're giving away at no charge. Do they plan to make it up on volume? :-)
Linux enthusiasts ought to look toward more commercial companies, such as ImageStream (http://www.imagestream.com/) who has been in business 10 years, and building Linux routers for 7. Their corporate profile says they have 30K units in the field.
MontaVista (http://www.montavista.com/) has an embedded OS for PPC and ARM that would provide something more extensible and functional than XORP.
Heck, even Technologic Systems (http://www.embeddedarm.com/) has more mature, embedded products than XORP.
XORP is a great idea--but you're better off going with companies that have already proven themselves in the market and have mature products.
I don't recall any security patches for Linux 2.0 kernels lately.
I can't remember the last time someone tried to patch ipchains.
I don't see anyone backporting 2.6 kernel features into 2.2.
Microsoft is doing the same thing that the Linux community does every day. THAT'S A GOOD THING! Microsoft would do much better if they focused on making their current release work and less on trying to backwards compatible with everything.
Performance isn't an issue--ImageStream has a full line of commercial Linux-based routers in use in over 70 countries worldwide. They offer wirespeed performance and interfaces from T1/E1 to DS3/E3 through OC12 and OC48.
http://www.imagestream.com/
Don't take my word for it, either. ImageStream's Rebel Router with a DS3 interface was reviewed in Linux Journal and Network Computing last year. Both publications confirmed the wirespeed specification.