[144952] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: vyatta for bgp
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pierce Lynch)
Thu Sep 22 06:43:12 2011
From: Pierce Lynch <p.lynch@netappliant.com>
To: Andreas Echavez <andreas@livejournalinc.com>, "nanog@nanog.org"
<nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:37:19 +0000
In-Reply-To: <CAJ0Nkqi14_JxxOPOG0_ZcNhXo7BD=WjpOb14evzD2Z2AyXGCMA@mail.gmail.com>
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Andreas Echavez [mailto:andreas@livejournalinc.com] originally wrote:
> Ultimately, the network is as reliable as you build it. With software, it=
's much cheaper to divide and scale horizontally. Hardware devices are expe=
nsive and usually horizontal=20
> scalability never happens. So in reality, an enterprise blows 100k on two=
routers, they both flop because of some "firmware bug", and you're down.
With this in mind, I am keen to understand how many implementations of pack=
ages such as Quagga and Zebra that the group use. With the likes of Vyatta =
being discussed, I am keen to see if products such as Quagga as still regul=
arly used as it used to be.
Thoughts welcome!
Kind regards,
/P.
