[AusNOG] Assistance in picking a router

Skeeve Stevens skeeve+ausnog at eintellegonetworks.com
Wed Jul 17 21:53:52 EST 2013


Do you have more than one upstream?

Also.. can you confirm the size of the link and that you will need 2Gb/s
throughput.


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On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 9:43 PM, Daniel Watson <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> 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>
> *To:* "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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