Re: Failover how much complexity will it add?

[adel () baklawasecrets com]

Thanks,

I've taken your advice and decided to reconsider my requirement for a full routing table.  I believe I'm being greedy 
and a partial table will be sufficient.  With regards to Linux/BSD, its not the CLI of quagga that will be an issue, 
rather the sysadmin and lack of supporting infrastructure for Linux boxes within the organisation.  So things like 
package management, syslog servers, monitoring, understanding of security issues etc.  I don't want to leave them with 
a linux/bsd solution that they won't be able to maintain/manage effectively when I am gone.

Thanks for your comments.  Look forward to hearing which solutions come back into the mix having dropped the full 
routing table requirement.

Regards,

Adel



On Mon  11:45 AM , Joe Greco <jgreco () ns sol net> wrote:

> > > > Basically the organisation that I'm working for will not have the
> skills
> > > > in house to support a linux or bsd box. They will have trouble
> > > > with supporting the BGP configuration, however I don't think they
> will be
> > > > happy with me if I leave them with a linux box when they
> > > > don't have linux/unix resource internally. At least with a Cisco or
> > > > Juniper they are familiar with IOS and it won't be too foreign to
> them.
>
> > > On Sun 11:47 PM , Dale Rumph  wrote:
> > >
> > > What does your budget look like? A pair of Cisco 7246vxr's with G1's
> > > sitting on the edge of the network would be very effective and still
> allow
> > > expansion. Or you could go up to the 7609. However this gear may be
> > > slightly overkill. You might be ok with a 3660 enterprise and a ton
> of
> > > ram. I have done single sessions on them but not with the level of HA
> your
> > > looking for.
> > >
> > > Just my 2c
>
> > You will laugh, but the budget at the moment looks like £13k. 
> > Impossible? Do only linux and openbsd solutions remain in the mix 
> > for this pittance?
>
> No, you have the buy-it-off-eBay solutions as well. "Beware the
> fakes."
>
> If they're familiar with IOS, then they can be familiar with Quagga
> about as easily as they could be familiar with a switch or other 
> network gizmo that had a Ciscoesque CLI but wasn't actually Cisco.
>
> You've painted yourself into a corner. I have a word for you:
>
> Reconsider.
>
> I don't care what you reconsider, but reconsider something. You can
> reconsider taking BGP with a full table. You can reconsider Quagga.
> Or you can reconsider your budget. This is the end result of the
> "pick any two" problem.
>
> Most end user organizations have no need of full routes in BGP. To
> try to take them dooms TCAM-based equipment at some future point,
> though if you have a lot of money to throw at it, you can make that
> point be years in the future. It is essentially planned obsolescence.
> If you discard the requirement for full routes, you open up a bunch
> of reasonably-priced possibilities.
>
> Finding someone knowledgeable in BSD or Linux isn't that rough. 
> Unlike a Cisco 76xx router, the hardest part of a Quagga-based 
> solution is finding the right mix of hardware and software at the
> beginning. PC hardware has a lot going for AND against it. There is
> no reason you can't make a good router out of a PC. If you buy the
> Cisco software-based routers, you're essentially buying a prepackaged
> version, except that it'll be specced to avoid any real competition 
> with their low-end TCAM-based offerings. A contemporary PC can 
> easily route gigabits. Vyatta makes what I hear is a fantastic
> canned solution of some sort, for a reasonable cost, and they will
> sell just software or software/hardware. If you really can't put
> it together yourself, there's someone to do it for you.
>
> Reconsidering your budget is probably the most painful thing to do,
> but also opens up the "just buy big Cisco" option. I think my point
> here would have to be that what you're looking for would have needed
> big Cisco... ten years ago. Now, dealing with a few hundred megs of
> traffic, that's not that big a deal, the thing that's killing you is
> the BGP table size.
>
> Your best option may be to see if you can settle for partial routes
> plus a default.
>
> ... JG
> -- 
> Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
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