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Re: Zebra/linux device production networking?
From: Albert Meyer <from_nanog () corenap com>
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 17:11:50 -0500
Linux routers are great for redundantly routing between your cable-modem and DSL at home. Using a linux router in production is a very very bad idea, although it may seem appealing to suits with no networking knowledge. I'm sure that other posters will provide you with many pages of reasons why linux routers suck, but I'll keep it short.
1. Mean Time Between Failures 2. OS exploits 3. Service/support Nick Burke wrote:
How many of you have actually use(d) Zebra/Linux as a routing device (core and/or regional, I'd be interested in both) in a production (read: 99.999% required, hsrp, bgp, dot1q, other goodies) environment?
Current thread:
- Zebra/linux device production networking? Nick Burke (Jun 06)
- Re: Zebra/linux device production networking? James (Jun 06)
- Re: Zebra/linux device production networking? Albert Meyer (Jun 06)
- Re: Zebra/linux device production networking? David Coulson (Jun 06)
- Re: Zebra/linux device production networking? Tiffany Snyder (Jun 06)
- Re: Zebra/linux device production networking? David Coulson (Jun 06)
- Re: Zebra/linux device production networking? Kevin Day (Jun 06)
- Re: Zebra/linux device production networking? alex (Jun 06)
- Re: Zebra/linux device production networking? Joel Krauska (Jun 06)
- Re: Zebra/linux device production networking? Michael . Dillon (Jun 07)
- Re: Zebra/linux device production networking? william(at)elan.net (Jun 07)
- Re: Zebra/linux device production networking? Peter Dambier (Jun 07)
- Re: Zebra/linux device production networking? Suresh Ramasubramanian (Jun 07)
(Thread continues...)