[66507] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: PC Routers (was Re: /24s run amuck)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@pilosoft.com)
Wed Jan 14 21:54:13 2004
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 21:34:23 -0500 (EST)
From: alex@pilosoft.com
To: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4005FD5E.6000207@ai.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> One problem is that with Cisco, unless you are buying the largest
> platforms available, each Cisco series uses different underlying
> hardware with different performance characteristics and images. You need
> to keep track of lots of separate images and versions when doing
> upgrades. With a network boot OS for each POP, you can do version
> control much much more easily.
In words of Randy, "I encourage all my competitors to network boot their
routers".
Seriously - that's insane, multiple single points of failure.
-alex
