[127734] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Vyatta as a BRAS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Tue Jul 13 02:51:34 2010
From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 06:50:59 +0000
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On Jul 13, 2010, at 1:34 PM, Sharef Mustafa wrote:
> do you recommend it?
My comment would be that a software-based BRAS - 7200, Vyatta, et. al. - is=
no longer viable in today's Internet, and hasn't been for years, due to se=
curity/availability concerns. Same for peering/transit edge, customer aggr=
egation edge, et. al.
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