[166980] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Meraki
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brielle Bruns)
Sun Nov 24 21:40:00 2013
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 19:39:42 -0700
From: Brielle Bruns <bruns@2mbit.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <52921083.9080504@gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 11/24/13, 7:43 AM, Mike wrote:
> On 13-11-23 10:47 PM, Eric C. Miller wrote:
>>> I'm using an EdgeRouter lite in a deployment for a WISP, and it's
>>> holding up very nice. It's only passing 40-50Mbps of basic OSPF
>>> routing, but no complaints thus far for the performance. I've
>>> heard that once you start adding in the services and rules, you
>>> really start to see the PPS drop, but I haven't RFC 2544 or
>>> EtherSam tested it yet.
>>>
>>> Right now, I'm waiting for the GUI to get more development before
>>> we move further with them. Being Vyatta under the hood, you can
>>> do just about anything, but the helpdesk techs don't understand
>>> CLI. Kudos on the IPv6 GUI support out of the box.
> +1 on the EdgeRouter. I haven't regularly pushed one past 100M, but
> over the past 9 months all they have done is act boring, which is
> exactly what I want network equipment to do.
>
> PPS will be affected more by packet filtering rules than by
> services.
>
As the product software has matured, the ER Lite has gained quite a few
performance improvements - just keep it updated as new versions come
out. Recent example is the HW VLAN acceleration stuff.
I have two, one in service the other as a spare. For the price, hard to
go wrong.
--
Brielle Bruns
The Summit Open Source Development Group
http://www.sosdg.org / http://www.ahbl.org
