[31946] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RADWare Linkproof? (or better ways to multihome)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy Brown)
Wed Nov 1 11:38:33 2000
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 11:35:46 -0500
From: Timothy Brown <tcb@ga.prestige.net>
To: Mohamed Hirse <madlion@justin.net>
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
Don't forget Foundry.
> Regards
> Mohamed
Best,
Tim
>
> 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
> >
>
>
>
