Work in progress.. Stay tuned.

TheRouter

TheRouter is a software packet router based on DPDK an NPF libraries. Using modern software technique such as QSBR, lockless data structures and cuckoo hashing enables the router to perform routing (up tp 32Mpps) and NAT (up to 6 Mpps) on high packet rates using commodity hardware.

It supports

ipv4 static and dynamic routing. Dynamic routing is based on integration with Quagga Routing Suite or FRRouting
dot1q and qinq ethernet encapsulations
ip unnumbered
arp, proxy arp
icmp
pbr and multiple routing tables
statefull and stateless firewall and various forms of NAT. This functionality is based on the improved version of NetBSD packet filter
link bonding
NAT events logging via IPFIX (https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-behave-ipfix-nat-logging-13#page-11)

Broadband Remote Access Server (BRAS) features

IPoE L2/L3 connected subscribers
IPoE vlan per subsriber with ip unnumbered addresses
traffic shaping (Token bucket filter with extended burst value)
DHCP relay
redirect subsribers traffic based on multiple routing tables and PBR
radius/coa
BRAS documentation
BRAS howto

News

Another production case - TheRouter as a BGP border router in a service provider network

VRRP - WIP

IPV6 - WIP

Lab #1 results

Road map

VRRP - end of may 2018
IPv6 - september, october 2018
Netflow (IPFIX) - december 2018

Performance tests

Install

Configuration

Use cases

Production cases

Bizin

Bizin. TheRouter as a core BGP router.

Bizin. The first experience using TheRouter as a BGP core router in an internet service provider network. Forwarding traffic between a BRAS cluster and a Google Cache Server.