[112214] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: real hardware router VS linux router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Fri Feb 20 15:41:13 2009
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:40:54 -0600
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Leen Besselink <leen@consolejunkie.net>
In-Reply-To: <499F047E.7080704@consolejunkie.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Leen Besselink wrote:
> And I had a ticket from a few months ago with one of our transit-providers
> because they had a Juniper router reboot, it turned out this was because
> a harddisk failure of one of the routing engines.
>
Given the redundancy capabilities of Juniper M/T series, that actually
scares me. NSF and ISSU are the biggies that I love about them. A
harddisk failure should cause a quick kick to the backup RE.
> So 'real'-routers have those moving parts as well. ;-)
If your 'real' router doesn't sound like a jet engine purring, consider
an upgrade. ;)
Jack
