Freebsd or Linux? as BGP router over 100mbps

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Published on 2011-03-06T09:32:47Z Indexed on 2011/03/06 16:12 UTC
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I am building a server to act as a BGP border router for my 100mbps uplink in ISP.

I needs these feature:

1) Dual stack BGP peering/routing (at least 100Mbps, maybe more). 2) Potential full internet BGP feed. 3) Some basic ACL functionality.

The hardware is L3426/8G ram. NIC will be on-board dual port Broadcom 5716.

I've worked with Linux extensively before and it seems to be able to handle 100mbps, but I heard FreeBSD is faster on networking stuff. Which one should I use? And do we have some performance benchmark numbers out there?

Cheers.

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