-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mark D. Kaye wrote:
I would be interested to know how many "software" (for want of a better description) routers are in live production in this kind of environment i.e. the 99.9999% Uptime variety, from speaking to people albeit randomly in data centres it would seem to be more common than one might expect.
With the prevalence of Metro Ethernet, I'd think it's probably a pretty common thing. People run firewalls as routers (stuff like CheckPoint), which is basically Linux or FreeBSD, although not with EGP/IGP.
Also does anyone have any peering policies which would exclude peers with "software" routers specifically, most have a requirement for the ability to support stable BGP peering but I have not seen any specific exclusions for such "devices"?
MD5 authed BGP sessions might be an issue - At least with Linux it requires a kernel patch (works for me). I'd peered with plenty of big carriers with Linux stuff and they don't care. I probably have more issues with a carrier I peer with who uses Juniper and feeds me my prefixes at a rate of about 50/sec, rather than 2000/sec that I get from others using Cisco (My gear is Cisco in this instance) David -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEhgiuTIgPQWnLowkRAo8eAJ9ZLANIku/rvRbRn5z5/kwbNnOspwCg5HfJ nUnzCg1xmcRc/4v3uiq1/eY= =bVnW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----