[144607] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: vyatta for bgp
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Leschnik)
Thu Sep 15 10:00:46 2011
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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 23:58:48 +1000
From: Jason Leschnik <leschnik@gmail.com>
To: Ray Soucy <rps@maine.edu>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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Ray
Download the Podcast "The Packet Pushers - Show 31" they talk a little
about this topic... If nothing else it's a great listen
Cheers!
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:05 PM, Ray Soucy <rps@maine.edu> 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? =A0Were you
> trying to run it as a VM? =A0What were you using for NICs? etc.
>
> The hardware matters. =A0Saying Vyatta doesn't cut it could mean anything=
...
>
--=20
Regards,
Jason Leschnik.
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Uni mail. jml974@uow.edu.au
