Hi Chris Could you share your opensouce 10G info for me? For the past 8 months, I have problem to use the 10G in linux system. I have to continuous to upgrade the hardwares... my existing system is using the new CPU now, 4G memory, 1 x 10G card plus several 1G NICs. Intel 2 Ext CPU X9650 @ 3.00GHz All CPU is in 100% used when it is in 4G totally (download + upload). thank you so much --- Chris Grundemann <cgrundemann@gmail.com> wrote:
Greg has laid out a great bit of information and I would like to add just one possibility to the list of budget 10GE routers: Vyatta. According to a recent press release from that company ( http://www.vyatta.com/about/pressreleases.php?id=51) they offer a product that is "2 to 3X higher performance at a cost savings of more than 75 percent" when compared to Cisco's 7200. Unfortunately I have not had the opportunity to test or use the Vyatta routers yet; I have however successfully used other open-source Linux based routers in the past with great success. If you are looking for a truly budget 10GE router, they may be worth adding to the list and looking into.
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Greg VILLAIN <nanog@grrrrreg.net> wrote:
On Mar 24, 2008, at 10:23 AM, user user wrote:
Hi everybody!
I find myself in the market for some 10GE
I don't buy these everyday, I was wondering if any of you guys had any good resources for evaluating different vendors and models. I'm mainly
about non-vendor resources as the vendorspeak sites are not that hard to find.
Also I'd love to hear recommendatios for "budget" 10GE routers. The "budget" router would be used to hook up client networks through one 10GE interface and connect to different transit providers through two 10GE interfaces.
- Zed
Hiya,
When it comes to budget, force10 are good. I wouldn't be able to confirm if they're worth performance-wise. I'd strongly suggest Foundry, I'm a big fan of
and performance-wise, provided you do not need rocket-science features. MLX/XMR models will surely do the trick perfectly.
When it comes to router purchasing habits, we all tend to get religious... Bottom line is that most of the 'regular' vendors (namely Cisco, Juniper, Foundry, Force10, Extreme, Riverstone) implement pretty much the same set of features, which are all IETF/IEEE normalized, meaning if you don't need proprietary features (and you'll wish you don't), any router will be fine, the only difference will come from: - the chassis being non-blocking or not (i.e. backplane design) - the price per port - the operating OS - the feeling you'll get with the salesperson, and
their Support Teams. - vendor specific features such as Flow Sampling To make it simple, most vendors have an IOS like OS, except Juniper which has a really clever and elegant OS, but are very pricey. Foundry and Force10 have the cheapest price per
routers. As thinking their kits, price-wise the reputation of port
Cisco does only Netflow, Foundry & Force10 only SFlow (which is a true standard) and I think Juniper does JFlow Cisco's kits are packed with proprietary protocols (HSRP and GLBP instead of VRRP, their own ethernet trunking, EIGRP as their own and yet extremely efficient IGP, TCL scriptable CLI...) , some of them are really good, some are crappy, but I suggest you'd stick with IEEE/IETF protocol to avoid future trouble.
One thing: RSTP/802-1w is very (very, very, very) not often interoperable between vendors who all have their own interpretation of the norm and can quickly turn into a nightmare. I'd strongly suggest try&buys if (R)STP interoperability is required, but I'm a little paranoid :)
Greg VILLAIN Independant Network & Telco Architecture Consultant
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