[olug] Community Colo Project

[Phil Brutsche]

I only have 3 things to say:

a) I think BGP is overkill. What would we use it for? You'll be hard
pressed to find a BGP peer that won't laugh us out the door for
suggesting a BGP feed for a /26 or a /27. We're not going for 5-nines
reliability here, a cheap community colo should be best effort only.

b) Very very very few 6th gen units will run Advanced IP Services (iirc
the 2600XMs and the 2691 are the only ones), and for IPv6 you don't need
it. All you need is IP PLUS (IOS 12.3 or 12.4), or IP/FW/IDS PLUS if you
want statefull IPv6 firewall (IOS 12.4 only).

Dan Clough wrote:
> The Sixth-gen Ciscos would work perfectly for this application.  I'm
> not so concerned with the extra U needed, the only real concerns I
> have is their IPv6 readiness and our expandability regarding BGP.
> That's easily taken care of as long as it's got plenty of memory for
> the tables and it has Advanced IP Services for IPv6 compatability.

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Phil Brutsche
phil at brutsche.us