[AusNOG] Assistance in picking a router
Tim March
march.tim at gmail.com
Wed Jul 17 22:33:57 EST 2013
Your network appears to be AS132839. Either you're advertising it to
your upstream via a device that you control or your provider is
advertising it on your behalf. From what you're saying it sounds like
they're advertising it on your behalf and probably just handing off a
switched port. This is probably what you're actually talking about when
you say you've got a "BGP routing table."
If you're having serious issues that you believe are related to that
device your first port of call is probably to harass the provider about
it. Also, if you're talking about replacing a managed service with a
piece of your own hardware there are more than likely commercial issues
you'll need to overcome as well.
T.
On 17/07/13 10:20 PM, Daniel Watson wrote:
> Gday Tim
>
> Thing here is. Our provider controls our router. Being Vyetta, we dont have access
>
> The only thing we have access too. Is the gear behind that, switches and servers ect ect
>
> All great advise thus far
>
> Ive been told we have a regular default BGP routing table aswell. So i hope that helps
>
> Daniel
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 17/07/2013, at 22:09, "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 $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.
>>>
>>>
>>> ...Skeeve
>>>
>>> *Skeeve Stevens - *eintellego Networks Pty Ltd
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>>>
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>>>
>>>
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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
>>>> <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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