On 7/13/2010 2:56 AM, Truman Boyes wrote:
On 13/07/2010, at 4:50 PM, Dobbins, Roland wrote:
On Jul 13, 2010, at 1:34 PM, Sharef Mustafa wrote:
do you recommend it?
My comment would be that a software-based BRAS - 7200, Vyatta, et. al. - is no longer viable in today's Internet, and hasn't been for years, due to security/availability concerns. Same for peering/transit edge, customer aggregation edge, et. al.
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A low cost 7200 or ERX-310 would easily fit the bill, and you can buy them cheap these days.
Cisco may be a lot of things, but low cost is not one of them. I've been running Vyatta on a small 1U Supermicro Server (cost $600.00) for over one year. It handles all of our VPN traffic and is the main router for our fiber connection. Except for dropping a tunnel every now and then its been flawless. I've set up a cron job to monitor the VPN and restart any tunnel that might drop. No tunnel is ever down for more than a minute. router:~# uptime 11:01:52 up 377 days, 17:22, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 --Curtis