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Re: vyatta for bgp
From: "Scott Weeks" <surfer () mauigateway com>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:06:40 -0700
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Scott Weeks <surfer () mauigateway com> wrote:
--- 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
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?
: For us, the ability to have more tools to poke : at the state of the system and troubleshoot : issues (such as performing packet captures : directly on the device) has been invaluable. : It has allowed us to track down issues (such : as TCP window scaling problems with unnamed : cloud services and their incorrectly configured : load balancers) remotely that would have : required on-site capture in the past. This alone would put me in heaven, rather than the mirror to an open port and sniff it procedure... :-) Thanks for the response, scott
Current thread:
- Re: vyatta for bgp, (continued)
- 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)