ISPs?

[Steve Bertrand]

Peter Spekreijse wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
>> I guess you guys do this especially for server services e.g. hosting
>> stuff
>> and not really for routing (BGP, OSPF/ISIS etc.), right?
> 
> 
> We do use it for routing, using FreeBSD, booting from flash, running
> completely in RAM. We have created a solid state BGP/OSPF router with
> FreeBSD. Our border routers run Quagga (bgp and ospf) but we are in the
> process of moving to OpenBGPD / OpenOSPFD. Our internal routers already
> use OpenOSPFD. We are using Network Appliances from portwell as hardware
> (8 * 1 Gbit/sec ethernet). We're in process of testing other appliances.

We do the exact same thing, some of our boxes boot from USB thumb stick.

What I love about this setup, is that one can clone the flash memory,
and have an immediate backup.

Not only that, you can boot up any USB bootable hardware and have an
instantaneous lab box that replicates the production routers.

Test upgrades, major changes, and them roll them back into the
production image.

Out of curiosity, why are you moving to Open*?

Steve