We use vyatta a great bit - 
if you want any advice for it - hit me up offlist.

Microtik is $$$ vyatta can be - but their opensource is FREE 
really nice application. 


On Sep 17, 2010, at 2:55 PM, Jeff Broadwick - Lists wrote:

> Vyatta has a cool product line.  Their open source version is free.  They
> have a paid product that is much more full-featured.  They make most of
> their money from their support contracts.
> 
> Jeff
> ImageStream 
> 
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> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Josh Luthman
> Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 1:54 PM
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> Subject: Re: [WISPA] I'm pulling Mikrotik
> 
> I guess you're right, appears it is free:
> 
> http://www.vyatta.com/downloads/index.php
> 
> Josh Luthman
> Office: 937-552-2340
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> 
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Greg Ihnen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Isn't Vyatta for the x86 free?
>> 
>> I'm not familiar with OpenWRT, but between dd-WRT and RouterOS it's no
> contest. RouterOS wins.
>> 
>> Greg
>> 
>> On Sep 17, 2010, at 1:17 PM, Josh Luthman wrote:
>> 
>>> Several threads have suggests Mikrotik over Vyatta.  Cheaper and 
>>> better.  I have not used Vyatta.
>>> 
>>> Josh Luthman
>>> Office: 937-552-2340
>>> Direct: 937-552-2343
>>> 1100 Wayne St
>>> Suite 1337
>>> Troy, OH 45373
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Fred Goldstein <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>>> At 9/17/2010 12:39 PM, Josh Luthman wrote:
>>>>> Sounds to me like they are not familiar with RouterOS.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Mikrotik's RouterOS does just about everything that you can imagine 
>>>>> in a layer 2 and layer 3 network device.  It does not perform all 
>>>>> of these tasks flawlessly, but the platform is more then usable.  
>>>>> Just need to watch out for the "gotchas".
>>>> 
>>>> You're right.. I'm not all that familiar with RouterOS yet. I'm 
>>>> doing the design now and want to make sure that RouterOS can do what 
>>>> I want it to do.  Of course there's always OpenWRT or DD-WRT but 
>>>> they don't seem to do as much yet.  And RouterOS allows 
>>>> virtualization, so we can presumably test WRT hacks in a virtual 
>>>> partition without bringing down the production net.
>>>> 
>>>> UBNT has a little CPU too but it just comes with, I think, Kamikaze, 
>>>> and nobody seems to take it seriously.  Down on the ground, 
>>>> something bigger like Vyatta should be able to handle all of the 
>>>> real routing load.  So I want to take each of the subscriber CPE 
>>>> radios (probably all UBNT) and make each one a VLAN, switched back 
>>>> to the big router that sits near the fiber.  This is a little out of 
>>>> the usual "route everywhere" box.
>>>> 
>>>>> Josh Luthman
>>>>> Office: 937-552-2340
>>>>> Direct: 937-552-2343
>>>>> 1100 Wayne St
>>>>> Suite 1337
>>>>> Troy, OH 45373
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Butch Evans <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 11:29 -0400, Fred Goldstein wrote:
>>>>>>> Glad to hear it's working.  My plan is to put a router at the 
>>>>>>> core and run layer 2 beyond.  How flexible is RouterOS for 
>>>>>>> setting up lots of VLANs?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> VERY flexible.
>>>>>> 
>>>>> http://blog.butchevans.com/2010/02/to-tag-or-not-to-tag-that-is-the
>>>>> -question/
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I'm thinking of using HWMP+ to automatically create paths 
>>>>>>> ("route", but not in the IP layer) them across the network 
>>>>>>> ("mesh", in the literal topological sense). Thanks...
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Mikrotik's Mesh is working, but it's not a "great" solution just yet.
>>>>>> Mesh is one of those things that MT "also does", if you catch my
> drift.
>>>>>> 
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