Bsd Now

We explore whether a BSD can replicate Cisco router performance; RETGUARD, OpenBSDs new exploit mitigation technology, Dragonfly’s HAMMER2 filesystem implementation & more! This episode was brought to you by Headlines Can a BSD system replicate the performance of a Cisco router? (https://www.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/6upchy/can_a_bsd_system_replicate_the_performance_of/) Short Answer: No, but it might be good enough for what you need Traditionally routers were built with a tightly coupled data plane and control plane. Back in the 80s and 90s the data plane was running in software on commodity CPUs with proprietary software. As the needs and desires for more speeds and feeds grew, the data plane had to be implemented in ASICs and FPGAs with custom memories and TCAMs. While these were still programmable in a sense, they certainly weren't programmable by anyone but a small handful of people who developed the hardware platform. The data plane was often layered, where features not handled by the hardware d