Thanks, Their offering certainly looks appealing. Will be interested to hear user experiences of the Vyatta BGP router range. Having said that I will still be examining the Cisco offering, just because of the support, larger user community and skills base issue. However if I can't meet the price point using Cisco, obviously other solutions are going to come into the picture. Adel On Mon 11:39 AM , Arnold Nipper <arnold@nipper.de> wrote:

On 09.11.2009 11:53 adel@baklawasecrets.com wrote

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You will laugh, but the budget at the moment looks like £13k. Impossible? Do only linux and openbsd solutions remain in the mix for this pittance?

Do you know Vyatta (http://www.vyatta.com/)? [1] CLI and config is Cisco-ish. Prices e.g.

Vyatta Appliance, Vyatta 2502, Enterprise Subscription, Basic Warranty, 1 Year (ships with US Power Cord as standard) (Typically ships in 10-12 business days) Price: $2,997.00

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