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/sec

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

2008-12-20 Thread Luke S Crawford
Brandon Galbraith brandon.galbra...@gmail.com 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

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 the

Re: Gigabit Linux Routers

2008-12-20 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, David Coulson da...@davidcoulson.net 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

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

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

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

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 jus...@justinshore.com 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

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 jus...@justinshore.com wrote: Does anyone have any preferred ways to manage their customer-facing BGP details? I'm thinking about the

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 Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Justin Shore jus...@justinshore.com 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

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 to see