[144606] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: vyatta for bgp
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alain Hebert)
Thu Sep 15 09:51:57 2011
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:51:00 -0400
From: Alain Hebert <ahebert@pubnix.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CALFTrnMMPA1MsNLtrp5auE0uPVCO2aj5aME3ym8rE_qwDZoC0A@mail.gmail.com>
Reply-To: ahebert@pubnix.net
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Hi,
As usual this end-up in what people prefer.
Vyatta is as good as the hardware it runs on, the backend they use
and the people configuring/maintaining it.
The nature of ASIC make it more reliable than a multi-purpose
device (aka server) running an OS written for it.
It end up being a choice between risk and cost and being that you
can get your hand on second hand iron for cheap these days...
Why risk it.
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On 09/15/11 09:05, Ray Soucy wrote:
> Is Vyatta really not suited for the task?
>
> I keep checking up on it and holding off looking into it as they don't
> support multicast yet.
>
> Modern commodity sever hardware these days often out-powers big iron
> enough to make up for not using ASICs, though, at least on the lower
> end of the spectrum.
>
> Does anyone have any more details on Vyatta not scaling? Were you
> trying to run it as a VM? What were you using for NICs? etc.
>
> The hardware matters. Saying Vyatta doesn't cut it could mean anything...
>
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Dobbins, Roland<rdobbins@arbor.net> wrote:
>> On Sep 14, 2011, at 5:54 AM, Deepak Jain wrote:
>>
>>> Some enterprises get MPLS L3 VPN service from their providers, and need boxes that can route packets to it and speak BGP to inject their routes. They are not, per se, connected to the Internet, and thus won't be "zorched", at least in the sense you are using it.
>> Hence 'public-facing'.
>>
>> ;>
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Roland Dobbins<rdobbins@arbor.net> //<http://www.arbornetworks.com>
>>
>> The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
>>
>> -- Oscar Wilde
>>
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