[119174] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Failover how much complexity will it add?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (adel@baklawasecrets.com)
Mon Nov 9 06:33:04 2009
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:32:41 +0000
From: adel@baklawasecrets.com
Reply-To: adel@baklawasecrets.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Looking at two 100Mbit/s BGP connections, so I think I want something that =
will do more than 100 but nowhere close to a gig. So full routing table ca=
pability
with throughput of mixed traffic around 200Mbit/s. If that makes sense. D=
o the 2850s fall into that sort of price point?
Adel
On Mon 11:13 AM , Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca> wrote:
> On 2009-11-09, at 19:53, adel@baklawasecrets.com wrote:
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> > You will laugh, but the budget at the moment looks like =C2=A313k.=20
> > Impossible? Do only linux and openbsd solutions remain in the mix=20
> > for this pittance?
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> I don't see an indication of the traffic you need to push (maybe I=20
> deleted a message too enthusiastically) but check the 2800 series from=20
> cisco. The 2850 will take full tables and has gigabit interfaces, but=20
> don't expect them to do wire speed. Other 2800s suffer from reduced=20
> RAM, but perhaps you don't need full tables.
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> Also look at Juniper J-series boxes, and maybe Force10 S-series boxes.
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> There's a healthy market in used cisco gear in most places I have ever=20
> visited, if you don't need new.
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> Joe
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