[29964] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Arrowpoint Load Balancing Devices
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karyn Ulriksen)
Mon Jul 10 20:32:37 2000
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From: Karyn Ulriksen <kulriksen@publichost.com>
To: 'Larry Snyder' <larrys@lexis-nexis.com>
Cc: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>,
"'lb-l@vegan.net'" <lb-l@vegan.net>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 17:29:52 -0700
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Thanx Larry. I'll see if I can track it down and also look up some people I
know at Exodus who might have worked with them. I remember seeing the blurb
in Network World about Exodus running them somewhere in their net and I
think I read that Time Warner put them in use somewhere on their cable modem
(Roadrunner) network. I wonder where they used them?
-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Snyder [mailto:larrys@lexis-nexis.com]
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 5:24 PM
To: kulriksen@publichost.com
Subject: RE: Arrowpoint Load Balancing Devices
It appears to have fallen off the end of the world, but there was an
article on /. about their move to exodus hosting and arrowpoint l/b,
along with a description of a dos attack on them. They use an 800
(or at least they did at the time). The initial 100 didn't handle
the attack well, but the 800 did, IIRC. Sorry I can't point you
to the article.
-ls-
Karyn Ulriksen <kulriksen@publichost.com> wrote:
>
> I keep getting these vague responses. But, I _really_ interested in what
> was done with them.
>
> I hate to ask this level of detail (and I'm not some marketing wig), but I
> _really_ want to know. Could you answer the following questions?
>
> How come you wouldn't consider the Cisco, Alteon or F5?
> What tests did you run?
> Which services did you configure and how many rule sets?
> Did you run a moderately high volume of FTP service across it (say 500
> simultaneous over 2 servers)?
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Noetzelman [mailto:jjn@peoplelink.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 5:04 PM
> To: Karyn Ulriksen
> Subject: RE: Arrowpoint Load Balancing Devices
>
>
> I'm in the process of switching from Foundry to Arrowpoint.
>
> I wouldn't even consider Cisco, or Alteon, or F5.
>
> Foundry and Arrowpoint both make an excellent product, it came
> down to the GS-800 fitting my needs more precisely. I eval'd them
> both over a period of a couple months (and I had originally been using
> ServerIrons) .... decided to make the switch based on performance
> and scalability that the SI just can't match up to right now.
>
> J
>
>
> ---
> Jeremy Noetzelman
> Director of Network Operations
> PeopleLink
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> Karyn Ulriksen
> Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 4:54 PM
> To: 'lb-l@vegan.net'
> Cc: 'nanog@merit.edu'
> Subject: Arrowpoint Load Balancing Devices
>
>
>
> I'm wondering how other ISPs are using Arrowpoint devices in their
networks.
> They must be successfully implemented in some networks with out many
> gotchas, considering that Cisco bought them. After six months of testing
> Arrowpoint, I ended going with another LB solutions. But I can't help but
> wonder what others are doing with them. Have they made enough changes in
> their product that I should take a look at them again?
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Best regards,
>
> Karyn Ulriksen
> Director of Network Operations
> PublicHost, A SiteStream Company
> 22 Mauchly, Suite 200
> Irvine, California 92618 USA
> Phone: (949) 743-2000
> email: kulriksen@publichost.com
> URL: http://www.publichost.com
>
