[aklug] Re: Free software switching and routing

From: Christopher Howard <christopher.howard@frigidcode.com>
Date: Mon Jan 06 2014 - 19:42:11 AKST

On 01/06/2014 07:01 PM, Royce Williams wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Christopher Howard
> <christopher.howard@frigidcode.com> wrote:
> There's been a lively discussion about that very topic over in NANOG land.
>
> http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2014-January/063290.html
>
> The contentious consensus appears to be that if you're doing something
> carrier-grade, don't try it ... but that at the small-shop level (and
> for NANOG, "small" may mean "a few thousand customers"), it might be
> OK, but still pretty risky (largely because of the spectre of
> customer-affecting outages and support SLAs thereof). A number of
> vendors are mentioned, with people piping up about their respective
> "degrees of freedom", so to speak. Read the thread and judge for
> yourself for more info.
>
>

Thanks for link. Haven't made it through the full thread yet (got lost
somewhere in the debate on NSA backdoors). But I found a link there to
Cumulus Linux which looked pretty interesting, which in turn had partner
links to Penguin Computing and some other big hardware/support names.

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http://www.lugod.org/presentations/pgp/why.html

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