[99370] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Going dual-stack, how do apps behave and what to do as an operator
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Wed Sep 19 12:09:26 2007
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:08:27 -0700
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20070919145234.GA640@skywalker.creative.net.au>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2007, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
>
>> location would be enough. If I had some old 7200s lying around I'd
>> use those, in locations where replacing drives isn't a huge deal a
>> BSD box (Linux if you insist) would be a good choice because they
>> give you a bigger CPU for your money.
>
> As someone who is building little compact flash and USB flash based
> BSD boxes for various tasks, I can quite happily say its entirely
> possible to build diskless based Linux/BSD routers which are upgraded
> about as easy as upgrading a Cisco router (ie, copy over new image,
> run "save-config" script, reboot.) Its been that way for quite some
> time.
>
> If there's interest I'll hack up a FreeBSD nanobsd image with ipv6
> support, a routing daemon (whatever people think is good enough)
> and whatever other stuff is "enough" to act as a 6to4 gateway.
> You too can build diskless core2duo software routers for USD $1k.
>
What about Soekris hardware? I don't have any personal experience with
it, but it looks very appealing to build load balancers/routers out of,
and quite inexpensive.
~Seth
