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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RADWare Linkproof? (or better ways to multihome)
Back in March (looking through the archives) there was some discussion on this product as a replacement for BGP-4 for multihoming. I find myself in a situation where I'm going to be setting up a site that will be multihomed at a co-lo site. We're going to be connected to two separate ISPs via fast ethernet connections. I have only discussed BGP with one of the ISP's (we will not be getting IP services from the co-lo company), but they didn't seem to indicate that they had any issues with us using BGP. So, it seems that BGP-4 is an option. We've been speaking with RADWare about their Web Server Directors for server load balancing and they brought up the Linkproof (http://www.radware.com/content/products/link.htm). I was planning on just purchasing a big ole router and running BGP, but the idea of replacing the router with a pair of Linkproofs (high availability) is very attractive both from a cost standpoint and from an expertise standpoint (I'm the only one here who has run BGP-4 at all, and that was only in a lab, playing around -- ie, we have damned near no in house BGP-4 experience). I'm waiting to hear back from our salesdroid on other customers who currently use Linkproofs in this manner (he says there are several), but since this has been discussed here (but no conclusions seem to have been reached), I thought I would ask and see if anyone has experience with this product. In the end, I'm certainly willing to look at other solutions, but we're a bit iffy on BGP and we're already planning on running NAT, so the Linkproof looks like a good fit. Thanks, Mike -- Mike Johnson Network Engineer / iSun Networks, Inc. Morrisville, NC All opinions are mine, not those of my employer
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