[126813] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Software router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dennis Burgess)
Wed Jun 2 10:15:15 2010
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 09:16:12 -0500
From: "Dennis Burgess" <dmburgess@linktechs.net>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
RouterOS does run in virtual environments, super small, and has BGP,
OSPF, firewalling, etc., all built right in. =20
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Dennis Burgess, CCNA, Mikrotik Certified Trainer, MTCNA, MTCRE, MTCWE,
MTCTCE, MTCUME=20
Link Technologies, Inc -- Mikrotik & WISP Support Services
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Parr [mailto:jeremyparr@gmail.com]=20
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 4:14 PM
To: Andrey Khomyakov; nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Software router
On 1 June 2010 16:50, Andrey Khomyakov <khomyakov.andrey@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Good times!
>
> We are starting to play around with VMware SRM and they "virtual"=20
> subnets that supposedly have to be able migrate from site to site in=20
> case of a failure of the local hardware (or software).
> Seems like to do that I'd have to run a software router on a VM that=20
> would redistribute the "virtual" subnet into the physical routing
domain.
> does any one have any suggestions for a software router?
>
> I'm running EIGRP on the net, so I guess nothing will speak that, so=20
> I'd have to redistribute OSPF. Any OSPF software router software=20
> suggestion would be much appreciated.
>
> Or if anyone had implemented "floating" subnets, any other suggestions
> or what to look out for would be also much appreciated.
>
> Thank all in advance,
>
Mikrotik would fit the bill.