Thanx Larry. I'll see if I can track it down and also look up some people I know at Exodus who might have worked with them. I remember seeing the blurb in Network World about Exodus running them somewhere in their net and I think I read that Time Warner put them in use somewhere on their cable modem (Roadrunner) network. I wonder where they used them? -----Original Message----- From: Larry Snyder [mailto:larrys@lexis-nexis.com] Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 5:24 PM To: kulriksen@publichost.com Subject: RE: Arrowpoint Load Balancing Devices It appears to have fallen off the end of the world, but there was an article on /. about their move to exodus hosting and arrowpoint l/b, along with a description of a dos attack on them. They use an 800 (or at least they did at the time). The initial 100 didn't handle the attack well, but the 800 did, IIRC. Sorry I can't point you to the article. -ls- Karyn Ulriksen <kulriksen@publichost.com> wrote:
I keep getting these vague responses. But, I _really_ interested in what was done with them.
I hate to ask this level of detail (and I'm not some marketing wig), but I _really_ want to know. Could you answer the following questions?
How come you wouldn't consider the Cisco, Alteon or F5? What tests did you run? Which services did you configure and how many rule sets? Did you run a moderately high volume of FTP service across it (say 500 simultaneous over 2 servers)?
-----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Noetzelman [mailto:jjn@peoplelink.com] Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 5:04 PM To: Karyn Ulriksen Subject: RE: Arrowpoint Load Balancing Devices
I'm in the process of switching from Foundry to Arrowpoint.
I wouldn't even consider Cisco, or Alteon, or F5.
Foundry and Arrowpoint both make an excellent product, it came down to the GS-800 fitting my needs more precisely. I eval'd them both over a period of a couple months (and I had originally been using ServerIrons) .... decided to make the switch based on performance and scalability that the SI just can't match up to right now.
J
--- Jeremy Noetzelman Director of Network Operations PeopleLink
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of Karyn Ulriksen Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 4:54 PM To: 'lb-l@vegan.net' Cc: 'nanog@merit.edu' Subject: Arrowpoint Load Balancing Devices
I'm wondering how other ISPs are using Arrowpoint devices in their
networks.
They must be successfully implemented in some networks with out many gotchas, considering that Cisco bought them. After six months of testing Arrowpoint, I ended going with another LB solutions. But I can't help but wonder what others are doing with them. Have they made enough changes in their product that I should take a look at them again?
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Karyn Ulriksen Director of Network Operations PublicHost, A SiteStream Company 22 Mauchly, Suite 200 Irvine, California 92618 USA Phone: (949) 743-2000 email: kulriksen@publichost.com URL: http://www.publichost.com