[31944] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RADWare Linkproof? (or better ways to multihome)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mohamed Hirse)
Wed Nov 1 11:18:51 2000
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 11:12:48 -0500 (EST)
From: Mohamed Hirse <madlion@justin.net>
To: Mike Johnson <mike.johnson@isunnetworks.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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Mike,
If the purpose of using BGP is to server load balance, there are other
products that work as well if not better. Take a look at F5, Alteon and
Arrowpoint. BGP will be a good method to load share traffic between
multiple different providers
Regards
Mohamed
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Mike Johnson wrote:
>
> Back in March (looking through the archives) there was some discussion
> on this product as a replacement for BGP-4 for multihoming.
>
> I find myself in a situation where I'm going to be setting up a site
> that will be multihomed at a co-lo site. We're going to be connected
> to two separate ISPs via fast ethernet connections.
>
> I have only discussed BGP with one of the ISP's (we will not be getting
> IP services from the co-lo company), but they didn't seem to indicate
> that they had any issues with us using BGP. So, it seems that BGP-4
> is an option.
>
> We've been speaking with RADWare about their Web Server Directors for
> server load balancing and they brought up the Linkproof
> (http://www.radware.com/content/products/link.htm). I was planning
> on just purchasing a big ole router and running BGP, but the idea of
> replacing the router with a pair of Linkproofs (high availability) is
> very attractive both from a cost standpoint and from an expertise
> standpoint (I'm the only one here who has run BGP-4 at all, and that
> was only in a lab, playing around -- ie, we have damned near no in
> house BGP-4 experience).
>
> I'm waiting to hear back from our salesdroid on other customers who
> currently use Linkproofs in this manner (he says there are several),
> but since this has been discussed here (but no conclusions seem to
> have been reached), I thought I would ask and see if anyone has
> experience with this product.
>
> In the end, I'm certainly willing to look at other solutions, but
> we're a bit iffy on BGP and we're already planning on running NAT,
> so the Linkproof looks like a good fit.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
> --
> Mike Johnson
> Network Engineer / iSun Networks, Inc.
> Morrisville, NC
> All opinions are mine, not those of my employer
>
