[olug] Community Colo Project

[James Ringler]

On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 17:37 -0500, Phil Brutsche wrote:
> 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.
> 


I urge skeptics to take a look at some of the news from Vyatta...

http://vyatta.com/about/press_releases.php

The New Mexico court system is switching to Vyatta.   

There's another doc which mentions I commentary from I think Sun's CEO.
it talks about how the server hardware is far more advanced than any
router and simplifies it to a server can be a router, but no router can
be a server.   So why limit yourself with inadequate hardware.