[90590] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Zebra/linux device production networking?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Albert Meyer)
Tue Jun 6 18:12:19 2006
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 17:11:50 -0500
From: Albert Meyer <from_nanog@corenap.com>
To: Nick Burke <mrmud@mrmud.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4485F6CC.9070400@mrmud.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Linux routers are great for redundantly routing between your cable-modem and DSL
at home. Using a linux router in production is a very very bad idea, although it
may seem appealing to suits with no networking knowledge. I'm sure that other
posters will provide you with many pages of reasons why linux routers suck, but
I'll keep it short.
1. Mean Time Between Failures
2. OS exploits
3. Service/support
Nick Burke wrote:
> How many of you have actually use(d) Zebra/Linux as a routing device
> (core and/or regional, I'd be interested in both) in a production (read:
> 99.999% required, hsrp, bgp, dot1q, other goodies) environment?
