<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Skeeve; also, just as another note, I would prefer to be sent from a reseller to a vendor's</span></font><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial; "> </span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial; ">presales engineering team then be sold hardware and/or configuration that will not work in a specific environment. </span></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial; "><br></span></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Don't be scared of Vyatta… the software will work wonders with cheap hardware ($3-6k for two boxes). I have a CCR1016-12G board from Mikrotik (this is one of the "Cloud Core" branded boards) sitting at home and if you are looking for something inexpensive it might not be a bad route (heh!) to go.</span></font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 14px;">RouterOS supports VRRP for setting up a master/slave virtual router with only around three lines of config. (OSPF/RIP is also supported… apparently. I could never get it to work correctly.)</span></font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Two Cloud Core's will not set you back more then $1,500, and it will give you throughput of ~ 3Gbps…</span></font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Can't speak for Juniper/Cisco gear, but IMHO GBP Multihoming is easier to set up on Mikrotik then on Brocade: http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Simple_BGP_Multihoming</span></font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Regards,</span></font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Tim</span></font></div> <div class="" id="bloop_sign_1386744689014787840"></div> <br><p style="color:#A0A0A8;">On 11 December 2013 at 5:40:05 PM, Skeeve Stevens (<a href="mailto://skeeve+ausnog@eintellegonetworks.com">skeeve+ausnog@eintellegonetworks.com</a>) wrote:</p> <blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq"><span><div><div dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div>Just a note. If a reseller can't answer some basic technical questions, they shouldn't be selling the product in the first place.</div></div></div></span></blockquote></body></html>