Not only project scrapped but a waste of tax payer monies. My experience with federal projects is the same. It's very sad.
On May 31, 2011, at 9:46 AM, Hammer wrote: > Kinda OT, I once was contracted to roll out a VPN solution for a large > federal client. Bad situation. The design was already completed by a third > party (without vendor consultation) and then handed to me to implement. They > had over 3000 sites and wanted to deploy mid-range VPN concentrators at each > location. I was totally confused until I spent a day or so digging into the > design. They wanted a FULL MESH. All concentrators peering with all the > others. It only took me about 3 days to get the specs from the vendor and do > the math to tell them that the fixed memory would cap out at around 700-900 > VPNs. Since I was a lowly contractor I was told to shut up and supervise the > roll out. I told them the math doesn't lie and it wouldn't work. Again: > "shut up and roll it out". OK..... 4 weeks later we hit around 1000 VPNs and > started experiencing something similar to a rolling blackout or rolling > black hole. They freaked out. Called in the vendor and ripped them up. > Vendor looked at the math and told them it wouldn't work and whoever > designed it was an idiot. Project scrapped. > > Bottom line is that your only limitation with BGP is your design and your > hardware. If you build it... It will mesh.... > > > -Hammer- > > "I was a normal American nerd." > -Jack Herer > > > > > > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Keegan Holley > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> 2011/5/26 Nick Hilliard <[email protected]> >> >>> On 26/05/2011 18:20, Keegan Holley wrote: >>> >>>> Why on gods green earth would anyone fully mesh 2500 routers. >>>> >>> >>> People do the most extraordinary things. A couple of years ago, a well >>> large italian access service provider natted their entire customer range >> to >>> a handful of public addresses. That was fun, and I expect it taught them >>> some serious lessons about how natting your entire customer range is a >>> really bad idea. >>> >>> But I guess lots of service providers will need to learn this lesson the >>> hard way very soon. >>> >> >> Agreed, but hopefully that provider didn't do that based on a vague >> conversation via a newsgroup with someone halfway across the world with >> their first message saying that they do not plan to nat their entire >> customer range. ;) >> _______________________________________________ >> cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] >> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp >> archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ >> > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
