[127740] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Route reflector/server appliance for access router aggregation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Bertrand)
Tue Jul 13 10:40:30 2010
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:40:00 -0400
From: Steve Bertrand <steve@ipv6canada.com>
To: Jack Carrozzo <jack@crepinc.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTilUUL14XZg0oPdiSOsnVdU7cLzR_1h62HWxztpf@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Morin <EricMo@barrettxplore.com>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 2010.07.13 10:06, Jack Carrozzo wrote:
> On the subject of route reflection, I've run into a few people happy with
> Quaggo or openBGPd on intel hardware. You can throw a 1U box together with
> dual PSUs, a bunch of ram, and SSD/CF disks for far less than a C or J setup
> and won't be wasting money on ASICs you aren't using. If I recall correctly
> this is what Any2 was using when I spoke to them some years ago, but
> perhaps someone here can offer more specifics.
I use these:
http://www.mikrotikrouter.net/
I just toss the Mikrotik CF card aside, and replace it with a USB thumb
drive running FreeBSD/Quagga.
For upgrades/testing, I just dd one stick to another, and load up the
system in a lab box, do my work, and then reload the router with the
upgraded, known working stick.
Steve
