Low Cost 10G Router

Colton Conor colton.conor at gmail.com
Wed May 20 17:41:43 UTC 2015


Yep, thats what I meant be ALU 7750 :)

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Cody Grosskopf <codygrosskopf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Add Alcatel-Lucent 7750? I have no experience but this list seems to love
> them.
>
> On Wed, May 20, 2015, 9:44 AM Colton Conor <colton.conor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> So, from the sounds of it most are saying for low cost, the way to go
>> would
>> be a software router, which I was trying to avoid. To answer the bandwidth
>> question, we would have three 10G ports with three different carriers and
>> at max push 10Gbps of total traffic to start.
>>
>> I think this leaves me with hardware routers that can support full BGP
>> tables. So, who actually sells full bgp routers. So far on my list I have:
>> Juniper MX Series
>> Brocade MLXe or CER
>> Cisco ASR 9K
>> Huawei NE40E-X1-M4
>> ZTE, not sure which model?
>> ALU 7750
>>
>> Besides the above, am I missing anyone else that makes a true carrier
>> grade
>> hardware router?
>>
>> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Pavel Odintsov <pavel.odintsov at gmail.com
>> >
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Hello!
>> >
>> > Yes, we could run route add / route del when we got any announce from
>> > external world with ExaBGP directly. I have implemented custom custom
>> > Firewall (netmap-ipfw) management tool which implement in similar
>> > manner. But I'm working with BGP flow spec. It's so complex, standard
>> > BGP is much times simpler.
>> >
>> > And I could share my ExaBGP configuration and hook scripts.
>> >
>> > ExaBGP config:
>> >
>> https://github.com/FastVPSEestiOu/fastnetmon/blob/master/src/scripts/exabgp_firewall.conf
>> >
>> > Hook script which put all announces to Redis Queue:
>> >
>> >
>> https://github.com/FastVPSEestiOu/fastnetmon/blob/master/src/scripts/exabgp_queue_writer.py
>> >
>> > But full BGP route table is enough big and need external processing.
>> >
>> > But yes, with some Python code is possible to implement route server
>> > with ExaBGP.
>> >
>> > On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 5:25 PM, Aled Morris <aledm at qix.co.uk> wrote:
>> > > On 20 May 2015 at 15:00, Pavel Odintsov <pavel.odintsov at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >> Yes, you could do filtering with Quagga. But Quagga is pretty old
>> tool
>> > >> without multiple dynamic features. But with ExaBGP you could do
>> really
>> > >> any significant route table transformations with Python in few lines
>> > >> of code. But it's definitely add additional point of failure/bug.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Couldn't your back-end scripts running under ExaBGP also manage the
>> FIB,
>> > > using standard Unix tools/APIs?
>> > >
>> > > Managing the FIB is basically just "route add" and "route delete"
>> right?
>> > >
>> > > Aled
>> > >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Sincerely yours, Pavel Odintsov
>> >
>>
>



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