Good point Jimmy, there is a world of hurt involved, although it may be slightly less painless when you realize that the alternative is: "*the NSA [who] has modified the firmware of computers and network hardware—including systems shipped by Cisco, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Huawei, and Juniper Networks—to give its operators both eyes and ears inside the offices the agency has targeted.*"[1]
There's already a world of hurt involved when you can't trust your equipment because they potentially have backdoors in them. D. 1. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/12/inside-the-nsas-leaked-catalog-of-surveillance-magic/ Oplerno is built upon empowering faculty and students We want you to found (and fund) Oplerno with us<http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/oplerno-a-new-and-affordable-higher-education?utm_source=email&utm_medium=daniel&utm_content=signaturetext&utm_campaign=indiegogo> [image: Support Us Here]<http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/oplerno-a-new-and-affordable-higher-education?utm_source=email&utm_medium=daniel&utm_content=signaturecta&utm_campaign=indiegogo> -- Daniël W. Crompton <daniel.cromp...@gmail.com> <http://specialbrands.net/> <http://specialbrands.net/> http://specialbrands.net/ <http://twitter.com/webhat> <http://www.facebook.com/webhat><http://plancast.com/webhat><http://www.linkedin.com/in/redhat> On 3 January 2014 06:01, Jimmy Hess <mysi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 8:53 PM, Andrew Duey < > andrew.d...@widerangebroadband.net> wrote: > > > I'm surprised nobody's mentioned vyatta.org or the new fork of VyOs. We > > are currently using the vyatta community edition and so far it's been > good > > to to us. It depends on your hardware and how small of an ISP you are > but > > it might be a great open source fit for you. > > > The orig. author has potentially set course for a world of hurt -- if the > plan is to scrap robust packaged highly-validated gear having separate > hardware forwarding planes and ASIC-driven filtering, to stick cheap x86 > servers in the SP core and internet borders. > > Sure... anyone can install Vyatta on a x86 server, but assembly of all > the pieces and full validation for a resilient platform comparable to > carrier grade gear, for a mission critical network, should be a bit more > involved than that. > > Next up.... how to build your own 10-Gigabit SFPs to avoid paying for > expensive brand-name SFPs, by putting together some chips, wires, fiber, > and tying it all together with a piece of duck tape.... > > just saying... :) > > > > --Andrew Duey > > > -- > -JH >