[66481] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: /24s run amuck
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jlewis@lewis.org)
Wed Jan 14 16:20:20 2004
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 16:19:48 -0500 (EST)
From: jlewis@lewis.org
To: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <OF933FD648.FA437A02-ON80256E1B.003A114A-80256E1B.003A552C@radianz.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 Michael.Dillon@radianz.com wrote:
> I stand corrected. The following page comparing Cisco and Imagestream
> is quite interesting.
>
> http://www.imagestream.com/Cisco_Comparison.html
>
> How many of you would buy an Imagestream box to evaluate for
> your next network buildout?
I've been managing a couple of these for a customer for a couple of years.
They work. The main problem I'd have with trying to use them on our
network is a lack of certain features I'm either used to or totally
dependent on in our ciscos.
i.e.
MPLSVPN (lack of it) would be a show stopper for us.
The gated-public they come with lacks features...AFAIK there is no support
for communities, prepending, etc.
Their current software image does include zebra now, but last I looked it
was not officially supported.
For a relatively simple end-user BGP customer, it works fine. And the
nice thing is it's PC-type hardware so if you need more RAM, just throw in
another dimm. No worries about the global routing table growing and
having to buy a bigger router because your year or two old one no longer
supports enough memory to hold full routes. I suspect the CPUs are
upgradable as well...but I've never actually touched the hardware...I've
always worked on it remotely.
OS-wise, it's a minimal Linux distribution with a menu interface (or you
can drop to a shell) and there is a little space on the flash to add
additional software if there something you want that they don't supply.
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