Re: vyatta for bgp

[Brandon Galbraith <brandon.galbraith () gmail com>]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Andreas Echavez <andreas () livejournalinc com
> wrote:

> The most reliable/cost effective solution is the cheap and redundant
> approach to architecture.
>
> Reliable hardware is incredibly inexpensive, and every year we get better
> CPUs and (recently) GPUs that are providing APIs and interfaces to their
> incredible parallel processing capability.
>
> -Andreas
+1 Scaling Horizontally. Applies to your networking gear, your applications,
etc. If you assume anything is going to break, just get more and
scale/architect properly.



> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 6:51 AM, Alain Hebert <ahebert () pubnix net> wrote:
>
> >     Hi,
> >
> >    As usual this end-up in what people prefer.
> >
> >    Vyatta is as good as the hardware it runs on, the backend they use and
> > the people configuring/maintaining it.
> >
> >    The nature of ASIC make it more reliable than a multi-purpose device
> > (aka server) running an OS written for it.
> >
> >    It end up being a choice between risk and cost and being that you can
> > get your hand on second hand iron for cheap these days...
> >
> >    Why risk it.
> >
> >
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> > On 09/15/11 09:05, Ray Soucy wrote:
> >
> > > Is Vyatta really not suited for the task?
> > >
> > > I keep checking up on it and holding off looking into it as they don't
> > > support multicast yet.
> > >
> > > Modern commodity sever hardware these days often out-powers big iron
> > > enough to make up for not using ASICs, though, at least on the lower
> > > end of the spectrum.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have any more details on Vyatta not scaling?  Were you
> > > trying to run it as a VM?  What were you using for NICs? etc.
> > >
> > > The hardware matters.  Saying Vyatta doesn't cut it could mean
> anything...
> > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Dobbins, Roland<rdobbins () arbor net>
> > >  wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Sep 14, 2011, at 5:54 AM, Deepak Jain wrote:
> > > >
> > > >  Some enterprises get MPLS L3 VPN service from their providers, and
> need
> > > > > boxes that can route packets to it and speak BGP to inject their
> routes.
> > > > >  They are not, per se, connected to the Internet, and thus won't be
> > > > > "zorched", at least in the sense you are using it.
> > > > Hence 'public-facing'.
> > > >
> > > > ;>
> > > >
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> > > > Roland Dobbins<rdobbins () arbor net>  //<http://www.arbornetworks.**com<
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> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >                The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
> > > >
> > > >                          -- Oscar Wilde



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