[90704] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Zebra/linux device production networking?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephane Bortzmeyer)
Mon Jun 12 07:44:43 2006
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 13:44:14 +0200
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: Nick Burke <mrmud@mrmud.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4485F6CC.9070400@mrmud.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 02:42:36PM -0700,
Nick Burke <mrmud@mrmud.org> wrote
a message of 39 lines which said:
> How many of you have actually use(d) Zebra/Linux as a routing device
IMHO, the question is not perfectly phrased. You actually have several
issues:
* use a regular PC instead of big and expensive iron,
* use Linux instead of FreeBSD or IOS or JunOS,
* use Zebra instead of Quagga or Xorp.
These questions are partly independent and should be addressed as
such. For instance, Quagga + a free Unix can run on dedicated boxes
like the Soekris, who have different characteristics than a regular PC
(no moving parts, for instance).
One last advice: be very careful when you read claims like "it may
seem appealing to suits with no networking knowledge": many people
never tried what they criticize, they just do not want their CEO to
discover that the expensive network could have been done for much
less.
[I installed, in a former job, Debian + Linux + Zebra on PCs and they
route fine.]
