[olug] Community Colo Project

[Curtis LaMasters]

I would vote FOSS for the firewall/router setup (pfsense or vyetta)
would work fine.  I could donate time for sure and hardware possibly
to accomplish that.  With pfsense we would have the ability to do VPN,
IDS/IPS, Failover, and even BGP if required, however, I'm with Phil
that BGP it's overkill. However, I do have one somewhat dumb question?
 What would you all put on the your community DC hosted servers?

Curtis LaMasters
http://www.curtis-lamasters.com
http://www.builtnetworks.com



On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Phil Brutsche <phil at brutsche.us> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
>
> Phil Brutsche
> phil at brutsche.us
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