I've been considering routerOS boxes to my "less important" POPs that are candidates to be promoted to MPLS-enabled POPs, although I am still a little skeptical about it. Still doing some lab trials with it, but have not deployed it yet besides as a CE router. The reason is that I've ran into problems with it going haywire for no apparent reasons as CE, lowering my confidence on the box and keeping it a little longer into the test bed.
It would be nice to hear more experiences with this little box-that-could in MPLS environments. On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:56 PM, gordon b slater <gordsla...@ieee.org>wrote: > On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 16:06 -0400, James Jones wrote: > > kind of....routerOS supports MPLS, linux does not > > It could (unfortunately) be a while before a full linux implementation > of MPLS gains enough speed, it's very much out on the fringe of what > linux "does daily". This mean that getting enough developers, free time > to develop and equipment to test with seems to be quite a steep problem > right now. > > Likewise the FreeBSD MPLS effort, though this seems to be more like > familiar territory for BSD-heads, but, as ever, funding and equipment > are sorely needed. > > If anyone (I'm thinking of the bigger players) could lend a hand, > loan/ship out a box, or offer a few test-box out onto the cloud by > (arrangement) the lack of MPLS on BSD and Linux machines could probably > be rectified a little quicker. > Or maybe someone has a tiny pot of cash to sponsor some "bounty" > development? > > back onto the main topic... > > +1 for routerOS, but never needed MPLS in my encounters with it. > > I have to say the Microtiks do nothing (in my world, that is) that I > couldn't do with half an hour and similar (but very slightly beefier) > hardware and a generic/minimal BSD or linux install, but given the > price, I'd be a fool to DIY if I need to hand over to others, erm , > well, shall we say, `less interested` at the end of the day. > It earns an extra Kibo Cookie for that, certainly. > > Gord > -- > | * error 34 * | auto-sig could find no relevant content for the message > text | please change to previous tape to continue searching or enable > FidoNet searching > > >