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Re: vyatta for bgp
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Ask_Bj=F8rn_Hansen?)
Wed Sep 21 13:32:03 2011
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ask_Bj=F8rn_Hansen?= <ask@develooper.com>
In-Reply-To: <625DBB8B2639984C8DA8F8EB45A39BB60610DDF2@neuman.orscheln.oi.local>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 10:28:40 -0700
To: Ben Albee <balbee@orscheln.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sep 12, 2011, at 11:42, Ben Albee wrote:
> Does anybody currently use vyatta as a bgp router for their company? =
If
> so have you ran into any problems with using that instead of a cisco =
or
> juniper router?
We're using Vyatta for a handful of fast ethernet links to the internet, =
with I think about three dozen BGP peers. (Mix of IPv4 and IPv6; about =
four full feeds on each protocol, the rest is peering). It's not as =
mature or polished as I understand some of the Cisco or Juniper =
platforms are; but on our small scale it's fine.
We have a decent amount of of Linux expertise in the office (and =
virtually zero for Juniper/Cisco/...), so having more familiar tools on =
the routers is nice.
As a small shop it's also convenient that the boxes are cheap (so we can =
have two hot ones with VRRP etc and cheaply a third cold spare) and that =
the spare parts etc are the same or similar to the rest of the boxes in =
the rack.
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