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Re: Zebra/linux device production networking?
From: Michael.Dillon () btradianz com
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 11:27:17 +0100
First, a little background.. My CTO made my stomach curdle today when he announced that he wanted to do away with all our cisco [routers] and instead use Linux/zebra boxen. We are a small company, so naturally penny pinching is the primary motivation.
It is primarily small companies that use zebra or Quagga or openbgpd or Xorp or the Click Modular Router project. There is more than one choice so do your research. The main drawback of all of these is that you cannot get PCI-bus cards that support some common circuit types and the PCI bus cannot handle switching high traffic volumes. Many people build and sell routers based on a PC server running UNIX. They work fine if they are no stretched beyond the role intended. Cisco routers are the same. Look at the limitations of the 2500/2600 series for instance. Some URLs of interest: http://www.read.cs.ucla.edu/click/ http://www.xorp.org/ http://www.openbgpd.org/ http://www.quagga.net/ http://www.zebra.org/
Has there been any discussion (or musings) of moving towards such a solution? I've seen a lot of articles talking about it, but I've not actually seen many network operators chiming in.
This tends to be a list focused on the cult of the BIG IRON, namely Cisco and Juniper. The people who use PC-based routers have their own hangouts. My main piece of advice is to seek out those hangouts and ask your questions there.
Here's the article that started it all (this was featured on /., so likely you've read it already).
Sorry, haven't seen these. --Michael Dillon
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- Re: Zebra/linux device production networking? Kevin Day (Jun 06)
- Re: Zebra/linux device production networking? alex (Jun 06)
- Re: Zebra/linux device production networking? Joel Krauska (Jun 06)
- Re: Zebra/linux device production networking? Michael . Dillon (Jun 07)
- Re: Zebra/linux device production networking? william(at)elan.net (Jun 07)
- Re: Zebra/linux device production networking? Peter Dambier (Jun 07)
- Re: Zebra/linux device production networking? Suresh Ramasubramanian (Jun 07)
- Re: Zebra/linux device production networking? Suresh Ramasubramanian (Jun 07)
- Re: Zebra/linux device production networking? (summary) Nick Burke (Jun 07)
- Re: Zebra/linux device production networking? (summary) Jon Lewis (Jun 07)
- Re: Zebra/linux device production networking? (summary) Stephen Stuart (Jun 07)
- Re: Zebra/linux device production networking? (summary) Jake Khuon (Jun 07)
- Re: Zebra/linux device production networking? Joseph S D Yao (Jun 07)
- Re: Zebra/linux device production networking? (summary) Nick Burke (Jun 07)
- Re: Zebra/linux device production networking? Stephane Bortzmeyer (Jun 12)
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