[olug] Community Colo Project

[Phil Brutsche]

The only way I would do a white box is if it used high quality
server-grade parts - RAID controller, RAID1 drives, ECC memory,
SuperMicro motherboard, redundant power, etc.

However, I'm still not sold on the "let's replace a Cisco with a PC" idea.

There's too much stuff that can break - the general-purpose OS, a RAID
controller, drives, etc - that simply doesn't exist in a Cisco or
$ENTERPRISE_ROUTER_BRAND makes it undesirable in my eyes.

"Platform" devices simply do not need most of the hardware redundancy a
FOSS router would.

Curtis LaMasters wrote:
> Unless I am from another planet, they are all purchasable processors
> for the public and really nothing special. I am not recommending
> putting a whitebox together to make a routing platform, but possibly
> take a Dell 1750 with dual processors, ECC memory, RAID 1 on SCSI
> 10k's and dual power supplies.  I bet you'd be hard pressed to find a
> "platform" device with as much redundnacy.

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Phil Brutsche
phil at brutsche.us