[76230] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Load balancing outgoing connections automatically.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Ranch)
Fri Dec 3 13:58:00 2004
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 13:57:35 -0500
From: "Chris Ranch" <CRanch@Affinity.com>
To: <bep@whack.org>, "Drew Weaver" <drew.weaver@thenap.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Drew Weaver wrote:
> | Howdy. We?re looking at upgrading our border router(s)=20
> | from 7500s to (something) yet undetermined.=20
I love my 7304-G100's as a nice step up from the 7500's, and short of
the GSR or J-vendor. Be sure to get the G100's and not the NSE-100 (no
PXF). Order of magnitude less horsepower, same cost, don't know why
they even sell them.
> | I?ve also heard of gear from companies like route=20
> | science that could possibly achieve the same thing. But I?ve heard=20
> | that it runs like $300,000 for a box, is there anything a=20
> bit smaller=20
> | for companies within the oc-3 range? That could accompany my router?
Drew mentioned InterNAP's Sockeye and NetVMG stuff, and Bruce pointed
out OER:
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> Cisco Optimized Edge Routing (OER)
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns471/networking_solutions_w
> hite_paper09186a008022dbfa.shtml
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns471/netqa0900aecd800f5584.html
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns471/networking_solutions_p
> ackage.html
There's also Infiniroute, formerly Proficient Networks. (couldn't he'p
mahself, Bruce)
In any event, unless you're running your links at near capacity, I would
say that occasional manual balancing (an hour once every few weeks or
so) is a LOT less effort than implementing and caring for all the above
new moving parts.
Chris
Affinity Internet
