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Re: Vyatta as a BRAS
From: Joe Greco <jgreco () ns sol net>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:33:09 -0500 (CDT)
On Jul 15, 2010, at 10:23 PM, Joe Greco wrote:For example, for a provider whose entire upstream capacity is 1Gbps, I ha=ve a hard time seeing how a Linux- or FreeBSD-based box could credibly be c= laimed not to be a suitable edge router. Because it can and will be whacked quite easily by anyone who packets it, e= ither deliberately or inadvertently. I've seen too many software-based rou= ters fall over with far, far less traffic than 1gb/sec to think otherwise.
You seem to be off in your own little world. Provided with a counterexample where this isn't true, you simply ignore it. Your arguments revolve around "My Ford Pinto's gas tank once exploded on me and it happened to other people too, therefore all inexpensive cars have unsafe gas tanks." The sad reality is that any gas tank can be ruptured and can be made to explode, but concluding that this is limited to inexpensive cars is a silly conclusion. The fact of the matter is that a /poorly engineered/ gas tank is much more prone to problems, whether it's in an inexpensive car or a high end one. You're drawing poor conclusions based on even poorer reasoning. Your negative experience with some software routers does not mean that they are all crap, just as my negative experience with some hardware routers does not mean that they are all crap. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
Current thread:
- Re: Vyatta as a BRAS, (continued)
- Re: Vyatta as a BRAS Dobbins, Roland (Jul 13)
- Re: Vyatta as a BRAS Joe Greco (Jul 14)
- Re: Vyatta as a BRAS Dobbins, Roland (Jul 14)
- Re: Vyatta as a BRAS Joe Greco (Jul 14)
- Re: Vyatta as a BRAS Tony Varriale (Jul 14)
- Re: Vyatta as a BRAS Joe Greco (Jul 15)
- Re: Vyatta as a BRAS Dobbins, Roland (Jul 15)
- Re: Vyatta as a BRAS Bill Bogstad (Jul 15)
- Re: Vyatta as a BRAS Cian Brennan (Jul 15)
- Re: Vyatta as a BRAS Dobbins, Roland (Jul 15)
- Re: Vyatta as a BRAS Joe Greco (Jul 15)
- Re: Vyatta as a BRAS Dobbins, Roland (Jul 15)
- A question for the house and the moderators (was Re: Vyatta as a BRAS) Larry Sheldon (Jul 15)
- Re: A question for the house and the moderators (was Re: Vyatta as a BRAS) Dobbins, Roland (Jul 15)
- A question for the house and the moderators (was Re: Vyatta as a BRAS) Larry Sheldon (Jul 15)
- RE: Vyatta as a BRAS Dennis Burgess (Jul 15)
- Re: Vyatta as a BRAS Ćukasz Bromirski (Jul 15)
- Re: Vyatta as a BRAS Lamar Owen (Jul 16)
- Re: Vyatta as a BRAS Paul WALL (Jul 15)
- Re: Vyatta as a BRAS Jared Mauch (Jul 15)
- Re: Vyatta as a BRAS Henry Linneweh (Jul 15)