RE: Arrowpoint Load Balancing Devices

[Karyn Ulriksen <kulriksen () publichost com>]

> I seem to remember the folks over at Andover being disgusted with the
> Arrowpoint boxes after a recent denial-of-service attack.  You might try
> searching on Slashdot; I think they posted a pretty fair criticism of the
> boxes.

Yeah, Jeremy Noetzelman, over at People dug up the links and I read through
them.


        http://slashdot.org/articles/00/05/17/1318233.shtml
        and
        http://slashdot.org/articles/00/05/18/1427203.shtml


It looks like they had to jump to the CS800 to get stability after the
CS100's died.  I looked at doing this, but it looked like I would end up
with a 16u (size?) chassis serving 6 to 8 servers with no where to move up.
Try and sell *that* to a Board of Directors...

Karyn