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Re: /24s run amuck
From: jlewis () lewis org
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 16:19:48 -0500 (EST)
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 Michael.Dillon () radianz com wrote:
I stand corrected. The following page comparing Cisco and Imagestream is quite interesting. http://www.imagestream.com/Cisco_Comparison.html How many of you would buy an Imagestream box to evaluate for your next network buildout?
I've been managing a couple of these for a customer for a couple of years. They work. The main problem I'd have with trying to use them on our network is a lack of certain features I'm either used to or totally dependent on in our ciscos. i.e. MPLSVPN (lack of it) would be a show stopper for us. The gated-public they come with lacks features...AFAIK there is no support for communities, prepending, etc. Their current software image does include zebra now, but last I looked it was not officially supported. For a relatively simple end-user BGP customer, it works fine. And the nice thing is it's PC-type hardware so if you need more RAM, just throw in another dimm. No worries about the global routing table growing and having to buy a bigger router because your year or two old one no longer supports enough memory to hold full routes. I suspect the CPUs are upgradable as well...but I've never actually touched the hardware...I've always worked on it remotely. OS-wise, it's a minimal Linux distribution with a menu interface (or you can drop to a shell) and there is a little space on the flash to add additional software if there something you want that they don't supply. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis *jlewis () lewis org*| I route Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________
Current thread:
- RE: /24s run amuck, (continued)
- RE: /24s run amuck Stephen J. Wilcox (Jan 13)
- Re: /24s run amuck Michael . Dillon (Jan 14)
- Re: /24s run amuck Suresh Ramasubramanian (Jan 14)
- Re: /24s run amuck Paul (Jan 14)
- Re: /24s run amuck Michael . Dillon (Jan 14)
- Re: /24s run amuck David Barak (Jan 14)
- Re: /24s run amuck Steven M. Bellovin (Jan 14)
- Re: /24s run amuck Timothy Brown (Jan 14)
- imagestream vs. Cisco Alex Yuriev (Jan 14)
- Re: imagestream vs. Cisco Frank Louwers (Jan 14)
- Re: /24s run amuck jlewis (Jan 14)
- PC Routers (was Re: /24s run amuck) Stephen J. Wilcox (Jan 14)
- Re: PC Routers (was Re: /24s run amuck) james (Jan 14)
- Re: PC Routers (was Re: /24s run amuck) jlewis (Jan 14)
- Re: PC Routers (was Re: /24s run amuck) Joe Abley (Jan 14)
- Re: PC Routers (was Re: /24s run amuck) Alexei Roudnev (Jan 14)
- Re: PC Routers (was Re: /24s run amuck) james (Jan 14)
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- Re: PC Routers (was Re: /24s run amuck) james (Jan 14)
- Re: PC Routers (was Re: /24s run amuck) haesu (Jan 14)
- Re: PC Routers (was Re: /24s run amuck) Paul (Jan 14)
- Re: PC Routers (was Re: /24s run amuck) haesu (Jan 14)