Vyatta as a BRAS

Tue Jul 13 15:05:09 UTC 2010

On 7/13/2010 2:56 AM, Truman Boyes wrote:
> On 13/07/2010, at 4:50 PM, Dobbins, Roland wrote:
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>> On Jul 13, 2010, at 1:34 PM, Sharef Mustafa wrote:
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>>> do you recommend it?
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>> 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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>> Roland Dobbins<rdobbins at arbor.net>  //<http://www.arbornetworks.com>
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>>     Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
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>>                         -- H.L. Mencken
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>   A low cost 7200 or ERX-310 would easily fit the bill, and you can buy them cheap these days.
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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