[128566] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Server Load Balancing - DSR
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marco Hogewoning)
Thu Aug 12 13:23:25 2010
From: Marco Hogewoning <marcoh@marcoh.net>
In-Reply-To: <6DC1F083-5885-4AA0-AA82-A537BE25DBC5@taranta.discpro.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:23:04 +0200
To: Leland Vandervort <leland@taranta.discpro.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Brocade basically sucks when it comes to loadbalancing IPv6, the old =
serveriron platform is EOL and a complete mess which offers some IPv6 =
support, but not much. The new ADX platform seems to be in a pre-alfa =
stage at the moment. So normally I would say stand clear, however we do =
run a (larger) usenet platform on v6 which uses DSR and that part works =
on the serveriron, running a pre-relase of the 11.0.0f software.
Must admit we don't do anything fancy, it's all unprotected and =
statically routed, ACLs are all done on the reals and on the Juniper in =
front of the serveriron etc. But it seems to hold, haven't heard any =
complains yet. But be warned this is a really specifc subset of =
features. For regular operations like web we still have loads and loads =
of issues.
Basically the other choice is F5. We are busy setting up a PoC with A10, =
who claim IPv6 support. Hopefully in a few weeks time they can be added =
to the list of potential suppliers. Other then these two I haven't come =
across any dedicated stuff and what's left is Linux/BSD based solutions.
MarcoH
