[AusNOG] Assistance in picking a router

[Skeeve Stevens]

Right tool right job Tim.  I love Cisco, and Juniper... and some other
things.  All depends what it is needed from the unit, and the price point
they are trying to achieve.


...Skeeve

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The Experts Who The Experts Call
Juniper - Cisco - Cloud


On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Tim March <march.tim at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I'm sure you'll get a load of great advice on buying a new routing
> platform. Skeeve will tell you to buy a Juniper. I'll tell you to buy a
> Cisco. Chairman Mao will tell you to buy a Huawei. They'll all do what you
> need them to better than whatever virtual appliance you're probably running
> now.
>
> The network issues you're describing could be symptomatic of a whole range
> of fairly disparate causes. The best thing you can do is get someone who
> knows what they're doing to sit down in front of your network, do some
> analysis and produce a plan to improve it. Assuming you just need to buy $
> **RandomPieceOfHardwareSomeDudeO**nAMailingListSuggested and your
> problems will go away is flipping a coin.
>
>
>
>
> T.
>
> On 17/07/13 10:00 PM, Joshua D'Alton wrote:
>
>> Skeeve will be the man to answer this question, and maybe even the man
>> to supply you with the juniper (to do it (unless you want to go ebay
>> cisco).
>>
>> As an aside, NDA permitting, surely this isn't for Glovine?
>>
>> Reading your last reply, some SRX is what you'll want I think.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 9:53 PM, Skeeve Stevens
>> <skeeve+ausnog@**eintellegonetworks.com<skeeve%2Bausnog at eintellegonetworks.com>
>> <mailto:skeeve+ausnog@**eintellegonetworks.com<skeeve%2Bausnog at eintellegonetworks.com>>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>     Do you have more than one upstream?
>>
>>     Also.. can you confirm the size of the link and that you will need
>>     2Gb/s throughput.
>>
>>
>>     ...Skeeve
>>
>>     *Skeeve Stevens - *eintellego Networks Pty Ltd
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>>     <mailto:skeeve@**eintellegonetworks.com<skeeve at eintellegonetworks.com>>
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>> >
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>>
>>     On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 9:43 PM, Daniel Watson
>>     <daniel at glovine.com.au <mailto:daniel at glovine.com.au>**> wrote:
>>
>>         Gday Tony
>>
>>         Speed would only need to be a max of 2gbit realistically..
>>
>>         As for the BGP table. Id have to come back on that one..
>>
>>         No firewall or NAT needed.  Just a basic router
>>
>>         Sorry i cant be of more infomation. Im a bit unsure myself :S
>>
>>         I know our provider passes through a BGP session currently. And
>>         the virtual router handles our ASN and IP prefixes
>>
>>
>>         Regards
>>
>>         D.
>>
>>         Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>         On 17/07/2013, at 21:39, "Tony" <td_miles at yahoo.com
>>         <mailto:td_miles at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>>
>>          Hi Daniel,
>>>
>>>         You probably need to supply a little bit more information, the
>>>         most important being what speed is your connection and are you
>>>         taking a full BGP table (and if you are, do you really need
>>>         to) ? Do you want the router to do anything else (NAT,
>>>         firewall, make you a cup of coffee, etc ?). Any preference for
>>>         vendor ?
>>>
>>>
>>>         regards,
>>>         Tony.
>>>
>>>
>>>             ------------------------------**
>>> ------------------------------**------------
>>>             *From:* Daniel Watson <daniel at glovine.com.au
>>>             <mailto:daniel at glovine.com.au>**>
>>>             *To:* "ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
>>>             <mailto:ausnog at lists.ausnog.**net <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>>"
>>> <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
>>>             <mailto:ausnog at lists.ausnog.**net <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
>>> >>
>>>             *Sent:* Wednesday, 17 July 2013 9:34 PM
>>>             *Subject:* [AusNOG] Assistance in picking a router
>>>
>>>              Gday Noggers
>>>
>>>             I need some assistance from the community in looking at
>>>             routers
>>>
>>>             We only need a basic router
>>>
>>>             Our provider provides us with a BGP session from their
>>>             core to our virtual router at present,  But our virtual
>>>             router is not coping very well
>>>
>>>             Can the community please have an open discussion with me,
>>>             as to what i should be looking at  in the way of routers?
>>>
>>>
>>>             Regards
>>>
>>>             D.
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