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monday afternoon and tuesdays workshop materials cover introduction to dynamic routing and ospf. thursdays includes the ospf/ibgp intergration materials. On 03/05/2010 08:46 AM, Alex Thurlow wrote: > 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 >> >> >> >