On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 8:53 PM, Andrew Duey < andrew.duey@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