[167727] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Making of a Router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Faisal Imtiaz)
Fri Dec 27 15:26:44 2013
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 20:26:13 +0000 (GMT)
From: Faisal Imtiaz <faisal@snappytelecom.net>
To: Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAPkb-7AL2EB3c0e9S+pcNuvXWb1+sJiDf+rt2GVArig+qBboVA@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Well said Baldur....
For those who are movie buffs.. here is the snippet that visually summaries..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEkOT3IngMQ
As to the knee jerk reaction to a server doing routing.... such folks tend to forget that
Routers are purpose built servers....and most of the Internet Routing was originally done by servers (or main frames or minis) etc.
:)
Faisal Imtiaz
Snappy Internet & Telecom
7266 SW 48 Street
Miami, FL 33155
Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232
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----- Original Message -----
> What I get from you guys is that in your opinion it is not possible to set
> up a small ISP without spending a ton on Juniper or Cisco. I am not buying
> that. Even if I did not have a clear limit on my capital, I would be
> looking at avoiding paying that kind of money, because in the end the money
> comes out of my own pocket.
>
> Everybody have critical services running on servers. DHCP, DNS, Radius and
> so on are all on servers and you will be down if these services are down.
> What is with the knee jerk reaction for suggesting that the BGP daemon
> could also be run on a server? There seems to be many advantages of doing
> it this way, and not all of them are related to cost.
>
> Regards,
>
> Baldur
>
