[AusNOG] Assistance in picking a router

[Skeeve Stevens]

Sounds like Jared is doing everything right by you Daniel.  He is a good
guy, so listen to your supplier, and he will help you out.

But... when you go down the path of shared virtual routers... this is the
sort of thing that will happen.


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On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:06 PM, Jared Hirst <
jared.hirst at serversaustralia.com.au> wrote:

> Daniel,
>
> It is configured fine, you wanted to hide us from your path and we
> suggested a vyatta virtual router as you did not want us to route your ips
> nor did you want to invest $10,000 in a decent router.
>
> The degraded traffic only appears when you are under high packets per
> second ddos. I advised earlier about this. There is no Mis configuration,
> we are going to try and stop the attacks from bringing your network offline.
>
> If you were being advertised by us then out routers would not have this
> issue, as many have suggested when you have a single upstream this is the
> best way to go about having a stable and redundant network setup, as we
> have dual routers and very powerful routers that can handle high PPS.
>
> Just for the lists sake, we have done and will continue to do everything
> we can as the provider for this AS!
>
> I made one suggestion to maybe look into a hardware router to cope with
> Mis fragmented packets and high PPS and now I am being dragged into
> something that I shouldn't be.
>
> Daniel I suggest you talk to us rather than this list and rather than
> bring me into a public forum and make possibly incorrect accusations.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jared
>
> On Wednesday, 17 July 2013, Daniel Watson wrote:
>
>> Gday James
>>
>> We want to be white labled and hidden from SAU. Thus the router idea
>>
>> Jared suggested virtual Vyatta as it works fine
>>
>> Clearly not. As now they have said its not configured correctly...
>>
>> Just some insight for you
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On 17/07/2013, at 22:35, "James Braunegg" <james.braunegg at micron21.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Daniel****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> If you only have one upstream provider, I would question if you even need
>> to run your own router… why not let your upstream provider advertise your
>> IP ranges for you, let them do BGP which will allow you to do just
>> switching downstream.****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Because it sounds like your only taking a default route the other option
>> is maybe not even looking at a router. Instead  I’d look at a nice layer 3
>> switch with BGP which will outperform most low end software routers from a
>> packet per second point of view.****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Kindest Regards****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> *James Braunegg
>> **P:*  1300 769 972  |  *M:*  0488 997 207 |  *D:*  (03) 9751 7616****
>>
>> *E:*   james.braunegg at micron21.com  |  *ABN:*  12 109 977 666
>> *W:*  www.micron21.com/ip-transit  *T:* @micron21****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>
> --
>
> Kindest Regards,
>
> Jared Hirst
>
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