I have to say that this looks like a nice solution to me, and I've
definitely had many people point me to OSPF. One problem is that I've
never run OSPF before. Some googling brings of a few results on
implementation, but can someone recommend a good place to look or a book
to get to really get it all figured out?
Thanks,
Alex
On 3/4/2010 11:23 AM, Jack Carrozzo wrote:
If you want to keep it cheap, roll out another Quagga edge - one to
each peer. Drop default into OSPF from both edges, iBGP over a GE
between them. If one toasts you'll only lose half your routes for
1s-ish, or however long you set your OSPF keepalives.
While you're at it, add extra fans and run the edge systems off solid
state disks or CF cards.
Or, buy $real hardware.
-Jack Carrozzo
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Alex Thurlow <a...@blastro.com
<mailto:a...@blastro.com>> wrote:
Let me preface this by saying that I'm not a full time network
admin, but we're a small company and I'm the only one handling
this. Our budget is also not huge, but we're at the point where
extended downtime would cost us enough money that we can spend
some money to fix the problem.
Here's my situation: I have two providers, each handing me
gigabit ethernet. I'm getting full BGP feeds and handling them
with a Linux/Quagga router. We max out at about 100kpps, as we're
mostly pushing video which gives us a large packet size. It works
fine, and I've been happy with it so far. But, we've gotten to
the point where I want a backup router of some sort in case
something happens to that one, what with the fans and disks that
could fail. I see a few options.
1. Just set up another Quagga box and use keepalived or some other
HA solution.
2. Buy a Cisco/Juniper/whatever and then have the Quagga box as
backup.
3. I have a 6500 behind the router that's just doing switching.
Could I have something switch that to static route all traffic to
one of my providers if something happened to the router? The 6500
has Sup1A with MSFC2 running IOS native.
On the Cisco side, I see that we could probably run a 7200VXR with
NPE-G1 (about $6000 on ebay). Moving to the Sup720, even used is
probably out of our price range.
What do you guys think I should use here?
Thanks,
Alex
