Re: Vyatta as a BRAS

[khatfield () socllc net]

 In that case you are entirely accurate. If you were to use Vyatta (linux-based) systems for this then you would likely 
need additional infrastructure to firewall or zone it to ensure it can't be hit directly.

Depending on what all it has running and the configuration it could be firewalled off locally but you're right it 
wouldn't withstand like 'hardware-accelerated' as stated before.

Sorry for the confusion :)

------Original Message------
From: Dobbins, Roland
To: NANOG list
Subject: Re: Vyatta as a BRAS
Sent: Jul 13, 2010 1:37 PM


On Jul 14, 2010, at 1:29 AM, <khatfield () socllc net> wrote:

> We were talking about routing though.

I was talking about packeting the boxes directly, apologies for being unclear - that's what I meant when I said that 
the era of software-based edge boxes is long past.

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