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Re: vyatta for bgp
From: "Scott Weeks" <surfer () mauigateway com>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:20:00 -0700
--- rps () maine edu wrote: From: Ray Soucy <rps () maine edu> We service most of the state's public schools and libraries (about 1000). Historically the CPE of choice was a small Cisco ISR (1600, 1700, 1800, and 1900 most recently). As bandwidth levels went up, and Ethernet-based transport services became available, we started looking and leveraging FOSS on commodity hardware to lower costs and move services to the edge. Right now we have about 100 of the bigger school districts being services by a Linux-based appliance running XORP for its routing engine (we would have tried Quagga, but they don't support multicast routing yet, nor does Vyatta). It's been a learning experience. Most of the problems we ran into have been resolved by tuning the kernel parameters to act more like a router than a desktop or server. XORP itself has had a rocky ride since we started, so the stability of the project has also been a concern. Thankfully it is seeing somewhat active development again. I will note that XORP is very touchy about how it's configured; if you have well tested configuration templates it's fine, but it's very easy to get it into a crashing state based on something as little the order of configuration directives. For the most part once it's running it's stable. -------------------------------------------------------------------- After roll-out and after a time in steady-state operation did you do an analysis of human and hardware/software costs (as well as service to end sites, such as outages that might not have happened with normal routers and LAN switches) to see if you actually saved money? scott
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- Re: vyatta for bgp, (continued)
- Re: vyatta for bgp Ray Soucy (Sep 26)
- Re: vyatta for bgp Jason Leschnik (Sep 15)
- Re: vyatta for bgp Ray Soucy (Sep 15)
- Re: vyatta for bgp Jared Geiger (Sep 12)
- Re: vyatta for bgp Tom Hill (Sep 13)
- Re: vyatta for bgp Alain Hebert (Sep 13)
- Re: vyatta for bgp Ask Bjørn Hansen (Sep 21)
- Re: vyatta for bgp Ben Albee (Sep 12)
- Re: vyatta for bgp Robert Bays (Sep 12)
- Re: vyatta for bgp Bill Shetti (Sep 25)
- Re: vyatta for bgp Scott Weeks (Sep 26)
- Re: vyatta for bgp Ray Soucy (Sep 26)
- Re: vyatta for bgp Scott Weeks (Sep 26)