[AusNOG] Assistance in picking a router

[Tim March]

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 $RandomPieceOfHardwareSomeDudeOnAMailingListSuggested 
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 at eintellegonetworks.com
> <mailto:skeeve+ausnog 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.
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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
>>             <mailto: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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