I've been considering routerOS boxes to my "less important" POPs that are candidates to be promoted to MPLS-enabled POPs, although I am still a little skeptical about it. Still doing some lab trials with it, but have not deployed it yet besides as a CE router. The reason is that I've ran into problems with it going haywire for no apparent reasons as CE, lowering my confidence on the box and keeping it a little longer into the test bed. It would be nice to hear more experiences with this little box-that-could in MPLS environments. On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:56 PM, gordon b slater <gordslater@ieee.org>wrote:
On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 16:06 -0400, James Jones wrote:
kind of....routerOS supports MPLS, linux does not
It could (unfortunately) be a while before a full linux implementation of MPLS gains enough speed, it's very much out on the fringe of what linux "does daily". This mean that getting enough developers, free time to develop and equipment to test with seems to be quite a steep problem right now.
Likewise the FreeBSD MPLS effort, though this seems to be more like familiar territory for BSD-heads, but, as ever, funding and equipment are sorely needed.
If anyone (I'm thinking of the bigger players) could lend a hand, loan/ship out a box, or offer a few test-box out onto the cloud by (arrangement) the lack of MPLS on BSD and Linux machines could probably be rectified a little quicker. Or maybe someone has a tiny pot of cash to sponsor some "bounty" development?
back onto the main topic...
+1 for routerOS, but never needed MPLS in my encounters with it.
I have to say the Microtiks do nothing (in my world, that is) that I couldn't do with half an hour and similar (but very slightly beefier) hardware and a generic/minimal BSD or linux install, but given the price, I'd be a fool to DIY if I need to hand over to others, erm , well, shall we say, `less interested` at the end of the day. It earns an extra Kibo Cookie for that, certainly.
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