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?
On Sun 11:47 PM , Dale Rumph <da...@ibbs.com> 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 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: a...@baklawasecrets.com > To: nanog@nanog.org > Sent: Sun Nov 08 18:36:31 2009 > Subject: Re: Failover how much complexity will it add? > > 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 11:30 PM , "Renato Frederick" wrote: > > > There are any problems with quagga+BSD/Linux that you know or something > > > like that? > > > > Or in your scenario a "cisco/juniper box" is a requirement? > > > > I'm asking this because I'm always running BGP with upstreams providers > > > using quagga on BSD and everything is fine until now. > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > From: > > Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 8:39 PM > > To: > > Subject: Re: Failover how much complexity will it add? > > > > > > > > So if my requirements are as follows: > > > > > > - BGP router capable of holding full Internet routing table. (whether > I > > > > > go for partial or full, I think I want something with full > capability). > > > > > > - Capable of pushing 100meg plus of mixed traffic. > > > > > > What are my options? I want to exclude openbsd, or linux with quagga. > > > > Probably looking at Cisco or Juniper products, but interested > > > in any other alternatives people suggest. I realise this is quite a > > broad > > > question, but hoping this will provide a starting point. Oh and > > > if I have missed any specs I should have included above, please let > me > > > know. > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > Adel > > > > > > > > >
