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