[119173] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Failover how much complexity will it add?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (adel@baklawasecrets.com)
Mon Nov 9 05:54:23 2009
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:53:03 +0000
From: adel@baklawasecrets.com
Reply-To: adel@baklawasecrets.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
You will laugh, but the budget at the moment looks like =C2=A313k. Impossi=
ble? Do only linux and openbsd solutions remain in the mix for this pittan=
ce?
On Sun 11:47 PM , Dale Rumph <daler@ibbs.com> wrote:
> What does your budget look like? A pair of Cisco 7246vxr's with G1's
> sitting on the edge of the network would be very effective and still allo=
w
> expansion. Or you could go up to the 7609. However this gear may be
> slightly overkill. You might be ok with a 3660 enterprise and a ton of
> ram. I have done single sessions on them but not with the level of HA you=
r
> looking for.
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> Just my 2c
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: adel@baklawasecrets.com=20
> To: nanog@nanog.org=20
> Sent: Sun Nov 08 18:36:31 2009
> Subject: Re: Failover how much complexity will it add?
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> Basically the organisation that I'm working for will not have the skills
> in house to support a linux or bsd box. They will have trouble
> with supporting the BGP configuration, however I don't think they will be
> happy with me if I leave them with a linux box when they
> don't have linux/unix resource internally. At least with a Cisco or
> Juniper they are familiar with IOS and it won't be too foreign to them.
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> On Sun 11:30 PM , "Renato Frederick" wrote:
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> > There are any problems with quagga+BSD/Linux that you know or something
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> > like that?
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> > Or in your scenario a "cisco/juniper box" is a requirement?
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> > I'm asking this because I'm always running BGP with upstreams providers
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> > using quagga on BSD and everything is fine until now.
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> > Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 8:39 PM
> > To:=20
> > Subject: Re: Failover how much complexity will it add?
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> > >
> > > So if my requirements are as follows:
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> > > - BGP router capable of holding full Internet routing table. (whether
> I
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> > > go for partial or full, I think I want something with full
> capability).
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> > > - Capable of pushing 100meg plus of mixed traffic.
> > >
> > > What are my options? I want to exclude openbsd, or linux with quagga.
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> > > Probably looking at Cisco or Juniper products, but interested
> > > in any other alternatives people suggest. I realise this is quite a
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> > > question, but hoping this will provide a starting point. Oh and
> > > if I have missed any specs I should have included above, please let
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> > > know.
> > >
> > > Thanks
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> > > Adel
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