[167660] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Making of a Router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Thu Dec 26 12:02:29 2013
In-Reply-To: <1890383367.345314.1388076407430.JavaMail.root@snappytelecom.net>
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 10:59:21 -0600
To: Faisal Imtiaz <faisal@snappytelecom.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Look at the ubnt edgemax devices
Jared Mauch
> On Dec 26, 2013, at 10:46 AM, Faisal Imtiaz <faisal@snappytelecom.net> wro=
te:
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> I am a believer of not having to re-invent the wheel...
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> Having said that.. have you looked at 'purpose built appliances' e.g.=20
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> http://www.lannerinc.com/
> http://us.axiomtek.com/
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> If you are looking for a full router....
> Consider such as these...
> http://www.linktechs.net/
> http://www.maxxwave.com/
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> and there are a few others but the concept is the same
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> Personally, I am not a believer in making a single device be the do all / e=
nd all of everything..
> While one can do everything on a big server .. however breaking things out=
e.g. voip trans-coding and routing make maintenance, availability, and abil=
ity to create redundancy much more practical.
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> Regards=20
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> Faisal Imtiaz
> Snappy Internet & Telecom
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> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Nick Cameo" <symack@gmail.com>
>> To: nanog@nanog.org
>> Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2013 11:33:13 AM
>> Subject: The Making of a Router
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>> Hello Everyone,
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>> We are looking to put together a 2u server with a few PCIe 3 x8
>> (recommendations appreciated). The router will take a voip transcoding
>> line card, and will act as an edge router for a telecom company.
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>> For things like BGP (Quagga, Zebra, all that lovely stuff!!!), static
>> routes, and firewall capabilities we are thinking gentoo linux
>> stripped for sure however, what about the BSDs? FreeBSD or OpenBSD.
>> Any comments, feedback, does, and don'ts are much appreciated.
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>> Kind Regards,
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>> Nick.
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