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Re: New vyatta-nsp list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Tue May 24 17:44:38 2011
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=RfGKL_M0VU7FadZ47AxGKqf=8Mw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 14:44:23 -0700
To: Brent Jones <brent@servuhome.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On May 24, 2011, at 2:26 PM, Brent Jones wrote:
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> Well, with the new Juniper entry level MX devices out now, the cost
> difference between Vyatta and Juniper is probably insignificant now,
> and with Juniper devices, you have much higher PPS rate.
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> Granted, I have Vyatta devices now doing BGP, and they work fine, but
> you can't argue that ASICs can forward much faster than a general
> purpose CPU :)
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> To each their own
So the applications where I've deployed vyatta have a lot to do with =
having a topological need for a router/firewall/ipsec tunnel termination =
point in a VM.
Im some cases I'm not particularly proud of the results. but it's not a =
use case that juniper presently addresses.
devices down in srx210/240/ja2320 land are a rather different keetle of =
fish in comparision to an mx80/mx240.
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> --=20
> Brent Jones
> brent@servuhome.net
>=20
>=20
