Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 21:13:34 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> To: javier@nyi.net (Javier Frias) Cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: flat network Message-ID: <200004090213.VAA95617@aurora.sol.net> In-Reply-To: <38ECED38.421C71A7@nyi.net> from Javier Frias at "Apr 6, 2000 4: 2: 0 pm"
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> i used to think like that.... we used to use cabletron switches > and one of their 8000 routers, just a test. OH MY GOD > those things never worked. we even had two cabletron engineers > here for 9 days. and even they couldn't get it to work right. > > we went back to cisco like crack whores after their pimp. > > so yes, cisco i snot perfect, am i hope a good contender comes > out , but so far, their products have worked as advertise, > and their support is next to none. > > true they are a bit overpriced, but with good reseller channels, you'll > be amazed. > i have gotten equipment for less than 1/3 as advertised. That's not too unusual. They've got to sell cheap to keep up with the competition. My current favorite switch (note: switch, not switch/router) happens to be the Foundry FastIron, nice sexy switch, but a bit pricey. Seems to do vlans correctly, which is useful in the event that you're feeding over a gigabit fiber or something :-) > > If you have one router and one machine on a network, with OSPF you have > > exactly two ARP entries - and no need for the router to ARP for each virtual > > server. If you would like a practical demonstration of why this is good, > > do the same test as above. The behaviour is O(1). > > very true. > as a side note, i think he meant 200 actual servers, not 200 vservers. Don't know. But I know I'd prefer to have 200 actual servers not each advertising 50 additional addresses (~= 10,000 ARP entries possible). The 200 ARP entries plus 10,000 routing table entries would be manageable for the worst-case OSPF implementation. The 10,000 ARP entries would overflow lots of crappier switch equipment. -- ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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