[29969] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Arrowpoint Load Balancing Devices
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karyn Ulriksen)
Mon Jul 10 21:34:13 2000
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From: Karyn Ulriksen <kulriksen@publichost.com>
To: 'Timothy Brown' <tcb@ga.prestige.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, "'lb-l@vegan.net'" <lb-l@vegan.net>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 18:32:04 -0700
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>I seem to remember the folks over at Andover being disgusted with the
>Arrowpoint boxes after a recent denial-of-service attack. You might try
>searching on Slashdot; I think they posted a pretty fair criticism of the
>boxes.
Yeah, Jeremy Noetzelman, over at People dug up the links and I read through
them.
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/05/17/1318233.shtml
and
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/05/18/1427203.shtml
It looks like they had to jump to the CS800 to get stability after the
CS100's died. I looked at doing this, but it looked like I would end up
with a 16u (size?) chassis serving 6 to 8 servers with no where to move up.
Try and sell *that* to a Board of Directors...
Karyn
