<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Alternatively, there's switches like the Dell Force-10 Z (or S?) series that are running FTOS on top of Linux <http://bit.ly/1gd1O1r>.<br><br>The CLI is IOS like, with some differences (for example, to add VLAN access to a port, you would go into the configuration for the VLAN and add the physical port there, not the other way around for IOS).<br><br><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;"><b>From: </b>"Alex Samad - Yieldbroker" <Alex.Samad@yieldbroker.com><br><b>To: </b>"Sheng Yeo" <sheng.yeo@orionvm.com>, "Tony" <td_miles@yahoo.com>, ausnog@lists.ausnog.net<br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, 10 March, 2014 2:57:41 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [AusNOG] RouterBoard<br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">So</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Just let me re iterate so I can make sure I understanding (actually sounds interesting).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I buy a Dell S4810 switch (or is it a router ?)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I load up
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US">Cumulus, which gives me linux on this device with all the native drivers etc etc ..</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US">Then I just configure up like a linux box ?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> Sheng Yeo [mailto:sheng.yeo@orionvm.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, 10 March 2014 2:38 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Tony; Alex Samad - Yieldbroker; ausnog@lists.ausnog.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [AusNOG] RouterBoard</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US">Heya,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US">We have been working with Cumulus for 8 months now and their team is great.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US">We are deploying their 40/10/1 Gig solutions in our datacenters.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US">Performance is good as the Broadcom Trident Plus & Trident 2 switches are very powerful for the price.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US">Their architecture is great as it lets us manage it just like any other Linux server in our pool, just with Hardware acceleration and offload.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US">We work closely with the team, so feel free to ping me if you have any questions.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US">Cheers,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> AusNOG [<a href="mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank">mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Tony<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, March 09, 2014 7:58 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Alex Samad - Yieldbroker; <a href="mailto:ausnog@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank">ausnog@lists.ausnog.net</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] RouterBoard</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">A wise person I know pointed this out to me recently:<br>
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</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://cumulusnetworks.com/product/overview/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">http://cumulusnetworks.com/product/overview/</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-US"><br>
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It is only the software though, you then buy your own "bare metal" switch hardare to run it on (that has the ports that you require):<br>
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</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://cumulusnetworks.com/support/linux-hardware-compatibility-list/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">http://cumulusnetworks.com/support/linux-hardware-compatibility-list/</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-US"><br>
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A Dell Force10 (S4810) with 48 x 10G & 4 x 40G is $10k<br>
Quanta with same port spec is $8800<br>
Accton AS5600-52X - $6000<br>
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All prices are just ones that I found using google. No idea how relevant they are to what you might actually be able to get the hardware you require for when you ask someone for a quote.<br>
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I don't know how the cost or performance works out, so please report back to the list if you find any more details or evaluate them :)<br>
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regards,<br>
Tony.</span></p>
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