Re: wanted: new cisco router for cvs connection

[Henning Brauer <lists-openbsd_(_at_)_bsws_(_dot_)_de>]

On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 06:24:34PM -0400, Jameel Akari wrote:
> On Fri, 30 May 2003, Ben Goren wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 10:30:38PM +0200, Jakob Schlyter wrote:
> >
> > > we   need   a  new   cisco   router   for  the   connection   to
> > > cvs.openbsd.org.
> >
> > I'm  curious: what  is it  about the  cisco router  that makes  it
> > preferable to a ``normal''  computer (i386, Sun, whatever) running
> > OpenBSD for  this application? I can make  guesses--hardware being
> 
> I just went and had a drink with our network engineer.  I mentioned this
> and was asked the exact same question.  And I said, "well, zebra sucks for
> even small setups, it'll implode under BGP."  Or, whatever size of BGP
> Jakob has here that needs 256MB on a Cisco is certainly going to break
> Zebra.

That is just not true.
Zebra sucks hard, that is out of question.
Given that, it works surprisingly well for bgp. ospf is unuseable.
I have zebra here doing full-mesh bgp with 4 peers. I would not want 
to use it with much more, tho.
 
> > Might OpenBSD  be a reasonable  fit in some similar  situations to
> > this one?
> Yes and no.  Your ISP isn't going to want to BGP peer with you if you're
> not running a Cisco or Juniper or something suitably stable and supported,
> which is what my engineer said in response.

whichever ISP says that is stupid.


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