Re: Gigabit Linux Routers

2008-12-20 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008, Ingo Flaschberger wrote: > I'm not shure if this setup would ever be "stable". > also with ucarp tweaks. > hopefully freebsd supports soon more than 1 route. > FreeBSD, like all good open source projects, gets features supported when people code them up. So if you'd like t

Re: Managing CE eBGP details & common/accepted CE-facing BGP practices

2008-12-20 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Justin Shore wrote: > I should have said it earlier when I mentioned config backups. I'm already > a heavy user of RANCID, archiving my configs hourly. Been using it since > right around v2.0-2.1 which would be several years ago (feels like a > lifetime). So my

Re: Managing CE eBGP details & common/accepted CE-facing BGP practices

2008-12-20 Thread Justin Shore
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Heck, you could store all that in Rancid .. even cvs/svn I should have said it earlier when I mentioned config backups. I'm already a heavy user of RANCID, archiving my configs hourly. Been using it since right around v2.0-2.1 which would be several years ago (

Re: Managing CE eBGP details & common/accepted CE-facing BGP practices

2008-12-20 Thread Chris Owen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Dec 20, 2008, at 8:11 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 6:52 AM, Justin Shore wrote: Does anyone have any preferred ways to manage their customer-facing BGP details? I'm thinking about the customer's ASN (SP assigned

Re: Managing CE eBGP details & common/accepted CE-facing BGP practices

2008-12-20 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 6:52 AM, Justin Shore wrote: > Does anyone have any preferred ways to manage their customer-facing BGP > details? I'm thinking about the customer's ASN (SP assigned private ASN or > RIR assigned ASN), permitted prefixes, etc? While I'm sure this could be > easily stored i

Re: Managing CE eBGP details & common/accepted CE-facing BGP practices

2008-12-20 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Sat, 20 Dec 2008, Justin Shore wrote: Does anyone have any preferred ways to manage their customer-facing BGP details? I'm thinking about the customer's ASN (SP assigned private ASN or RIR assigned ASN), permitted prefixes, etc? While I'm sure this could be easily stored in a spreadsheet

Managing CE eBGP details & common/accepted CE-facing BGP practices

2008-12-20 Thread Justin Shore
Does anyone have any preferred ways to manage their customer-facing BGP details? I'm thinking about the customer's ASN (SP assigned private ASN or RIR assigned ASN), permitted prefixes, etc? While I'm sure this could be easily stored in a spreadsheet I'm not sure if there is any merit to stor

Re: Gigabit Linux Routers

2008-12-20 Thread Brandon Bennett
> Well, the J-series are fully software-based routers. Still, they have > their own routing daemons and such. The difference is that Juniper, even on th J-series box, completely separates the control plane and fowarding plane. The forwarding plane on a M or T series is going to be a ppc based ch

Re: Gigabit Linux Routers

2008-12-20 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, David Coulson said: > Comparing Imagestream and Vyatta to Juniper is crazy. The first two are > software based platforms (with perhaps some hardware off-load for > checksums and whatnot), where as the Juniper pretty much just uses BSD > for control-plane features (BGP, for exa

Re: What is the most standard subnet length on internet

2008-12-20 Thread Danny McPherson
On Dec 18, 2008, at 9:43 PM, 정치영 wrote: Suresh, Yes, I guess my concern is close to the second meaning. It seems so simple. Currently annoucement of /24 seems to be okey, most upstream providers accept this. However I wonder if there is any ground rule based on any standard or official re

Re: Gigabit Linux Routers

2008-12-20 Thread Florian Weimer
* David Coulson: > Comparing Imagestream and Vyatta to Juniper is crazy. The first two > are software based platforms (with perhaps some hardware off-load for > checksums and whatnot), where as the Juniper pretty much just uses BSD > for control-plane features (BGP, for example, and controlling th

Re: Security Intelligence [Was: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...]

2008-12-20 Thread Luke S Crawford
"Brandon Galbraith" writes: > But it's definitely not cool when my credit card company cuts off my card > due to "abnormal charges" when I'm abroad and suddenly can't get ahold of > customer service via their international phone number. Automation in the > right places works wonders for both conve

Re: Advice requested for OpenBSD vs. Linux/OpenBGP vs. Quagga router deployment.

2008-12-20 Thread Naveen Nathan
Hi Marc, > We are a software development firm that currently delivers our install ISOs > via Sourceforge. We need to start serving them ourselves for marketing > reasons and are therefore increasing our bandwidth and getting a 2nd ISP in > our datacenter. Both ISPs will be delivering 100mbit/