If you have had any experiences, good or bad, with Imagestream, please contact me off-list (or here). I would appreciate any or all of your collective input. Thank you, Shawn -- Shawn Solomon Senior Network Engineer / Systems Design IHETS / ITN 317.263.8875 ssolomon@ind.net fx317.263.8831 -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of jlewis@lewis.org Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 4:20 PM To: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: /24s run amuck On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 Michael.Dillon@radianz.com wrote:
I stand corrected. The following page comparing Cisco and Imagestream is quite interesting.
http://www.imagestream.com/Cisco_Comparison.html
How many of you would buy an Imagestream box to evaluate for your next network buildout?
I've been managing a couple of these for a customer for a couple of years. They work. The main problem I'd have with trying to use them on our network is a lack of certain features I'm either used to or totally dependent on in our ciscos. i.e. MPLSVPN (lack of it) would be a show stopper for us. The gated-public they come with lacks features...AFAIK there is no support for communities, prepending, etc. Their current software image does include zebra now, but last I looked it was not officially supported. For a relatively simple end-user BGP customer, it works fine. And the nice thing is it's PC-type hardware so if you need more RAM, just throw in another dimm. No worries about the global routing table growing and having to buy a bigger router because your year or two old one no longer supports enough memory to hold full routes. I suspect the CPUs are upgradable as well...but I've never actually touched the hardware...I've always worked on it remotely. OS-wise, it's a minimal Linux distribution with a menu interface (or you can drop to a shell) and there is a little space on the flash to add additional software if there something you want that they don't supply. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis *jlewis@lewis.org*| I route Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________