[90618] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Zebra/linux device production networking? (summary)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Wed Jun 7 13:52:35 2006
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 13:52:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: Nick Burke <mrmud@mrmud.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <44870E22.8010003@mrmud.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Nick Burke wrote:
> What about better case situations?* IE:
>
> toe cards
> custom kernel
> no moving parts (ie: hard drive, maybe fans if possible)
> up-to-date software packages with internal coders to fix ugly bugs, etc
> actual research into what packages & hardware would be best
I didn't notice anyone mention Imagestream, who sell Linux based routers
using a custom distro and no moving parts other than fans. Storage is
flash. I've helped a client manage several of them for several years.
IMO, they're not bad as CPE, but I don't think we could use them if we
wanted to on most of our network. Some of the features we need just
aren't available.
As others have mentioned, I wouldn't recommend it unless you have some
people very comfortable with Linux and IP routing on Linux on staff.
At one point, they had 4 full BGP feeds going into one Imagestream Gateway
router, which is a P4, upgraded to 512MB RAM. With 2 full views now, they
have 308MB free. It's an older installation, predating the addition of
zebra/quagga to their distro, so it's still running gated_public, which
works, but is fairly lacking in BGP knobs.
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