[66485] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: /24s run amuck
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shawn Solomon)
Wed Jan 14 17:08:06 2004
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 17:06:02 -0500
From: "Shawn Solomon" <ssolomon@ind.net>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
If you have had any experiences, good or bad, with Imagestream, please
contact me off-list (or here). I would appreciate any or all of your
collective input. =20
Thank you,
Shawn
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Shawn Solomon
Senior Network Engineer / Systems Design
IHETS / ITN
317.263.8875 ssolomon@ind.net fx317.263.8831
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of
jlewis@lewis.org
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 4:20 PM
To: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: /24s run amuck
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 Michael.Dillon@radianz.com wrote:
> I stand corrected. The following page comparing Cisco and Imagestream
> is quite interesting.
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> http://www.imagestream.com/Cisco_Comparison.html
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> How many of you would buy an Imagestream box to evaluate for
> your next network buildout?=20
I've been managing a couple of these for a customer for a couple of
years. =20
They work. The main problem I'd have with trying to use them on our=20
network is a lack of certain features I'm either used to or totally=20
dependent on in our ciscos. =20
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
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for communities, prepending, etc.
Their current software image does include zebra now, but last I looked
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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=20
additional software if there something you want that they don't supply.
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Jon Lewis *jlewis@lewis.org*| I route
Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are
Atlantic Net | =20
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