On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:08:38AM -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>>
>> Ooops! Maybe the discussion is not over :)
>>
>> I understand not much of this, so let me try to sum this up in
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:08:38AM -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>
> Ooops! Maybe the discussion is not over :)
>
> I understand not much of this, so let me try to sum this up in a
> know-nothing friendly way.
>
> They use nvidia multi gpu
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
Ooops! Maybe the discussion is not over :)
I understand not much of this, so let me try to sum this up in a
know-nothing friendly way.
They use nvidia multi gpu video cards for routing. Hence, they don't
face the interrupts problems so soo
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 01:41:11PM -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 02/26/2010 03:02 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 03:27:53PM +, Michal wrote:
> >> On 25/02/2010 14:00, Chris Adams wrote:
> >>> Once upon a time, Marcel Rieux said:
> I was under the impression that,
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
> So long as the firewall doesn't have to handle too many rules and the
> routing decisions are minimal. At those traffic levels, the system
> would be swamped with interrupts anyway.
Err... I believe we're though with this discussion :) Fire
On 02/26/2010 03:02 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 03:27:53PM +, Michal wrote:
>> On 25/02/2010 14:00, Chris Adams wrote:
>>> Once upon a time, Marcel Rieux said:
I was under the impression that, at most small ISPs, Linux had
replaced Unix and played a central r
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 03:27:53PM +, Michal wrote:
> On 25/02/2010 14:00, Chris Adams wrote:
> > Once upon a time, Marcel Rieux said:
> >> I was under the impression that, at most small ISPs, Linux had
> >> replaced Unix and played a central role in making things work. But
> >> today, I spoke
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
> I run Linux everywhere it makes sense, and have for more years than most
> (I've been running Linux-based ISPs for over 14 years and Linux on my
> desktop for longer than that). It just doesn't make sense in an ISP
> environment to run Linux
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 08:11 -0800, Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote:
> That's the whole reason that Red Hat actually does good business by
> charging such a collossal price for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
According to my boss the license costs for my RHEL servers are less than
the rounding errors in t
Once upon a time, Marcel Rieux said:
> Vyatta Appliance, Vyatta 3520, Premium Subscription, H/W Expedited 4HR, 3
> Years
>
> Vyatta Appliance, Vyatta 3520, Premium Subscription, H/W Expedited 4HR
> Parts & Labor, 3 Years (ships with US Power Cord as standard)
> (Typically ships in 15-17 business
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Tom H wrote:
>> Servers don't really make good routers. When you are talking about
>> traditional low- to mid-speed telco circuits (T1, T3), there have never
>> been good, well-supported, cost-effective solutions for connecting those
>> directly to Linux systems
Once upon a time, Tom H said:
> How about Vyatta? They are Linux-based and claim to have the same
> performance as Cisco routers. They started out as software-only but
> seem to be pushing "appliances" more and more, like
> http://www.vyatta.com/downloads/datasheets/vyatta_3500_datasheet.pdf
If I
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Tom H wrote:
> > Servers don't really make good routers. When you are talking about
> > traditional low- to mid-speed telco circuits (T1, T3), there have never
> > been good, well-supported, cost-effective solutions for connecting those
> > directly to Linux sys
> Servers don't really make good routers. When you are talking about
> traditional low- to mid-speed telco circuits (T1, T3), there have never
> been good, well-supported, cost-effective solutions for connecting those
> directly to Linux systems for routing that could compete with a basic
> Junipe
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Remember
> that staff are paid, and someone looking at a router issue is not doing
> something else. fact of life, when you get larger than "mom and pop" ISP
> operations Cisco or similar is cheaper than Linux.
That's the whole reason that R
On 25/02/2010 14:00, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Marcel Rieux said:
>> I was under the impression that, at most small ISPs, Linux had
>> replaced Unix and played a central role in making things work. But
>> today, I spoke to an ISP employee who told me that Linux was only used
>> for We
Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> On 02/24/2010 10:33 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote:
>> Is this correct? Are there more explanations you can provide to make
>> the picture clearer?
>>
>
> Cisco has been allowed into the classroom in many high schools here in
> the USA. They teach you to use Cisco, and only Ci
Once upon a time, Marcel Rieux said:
> I was under the impression that, at most small ISPs, Linux had
> replaced Unix and played a central role in making things work. But
> today, I spoke to an ISP employee who told me that Linux was only used
> for Web servers and that, for routing and firewallin
On 02/25/2010 12:46 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> On 02/24/2010 10:33 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote:
>> Is this correct? Are there more explanations you can provide to make
>> the picture clearer?
>>
>
> Cisco has been allowed into the classroom in many high schools here in
> the USA. They teach you
On 02/24/2010 10:33 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote:
Is this correct? Are there more explanations you can provide to make
the picture clearer?
Cisco has been allowed into the classroom in many high schools here in
the USA. They teach you to use Cisco, and only Cisco, for all your
networking needs.
I was under the impression that, at most small ISPs, Linux had
replaced Unix and played a central role in making things work. But
today, I spoke to an ISP employee who told me that Linux was only used
for Web servers and that, for routing and firewalling, nobody escaped
companies Cisco and Juniper
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