[167679] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Making of a Router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Cameo)
Thu Dec 26 16:26:42 2013
In-Reply-To: <CALFTrnNw96fxrZJpX_XpS8qrMA=gS=uooqY6OXjkDc6T-hTsZw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 16:26:29 -0500
From: Nick Cameo <symack@gmail.com>
To: Ray Soucy <rps@maine.edu>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> One of the biggest advantages is the low cost of hardware allows you to
> maintain spare systems, reducing the time to service restoration in the
> event of failure. Dependability-wise, I feel that whitebox Linux systems
> are pretty much at Cisco levels these days, especially if running
> in-memory.
With your guidance, I can put together a gentoo environment that will
run in memory
tailored for this purpose, and would be obliged to share it with the
community if
anyone else is interested.
N.
