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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: RADWare Linkproof? (or better ways to multihome)
Mike, If the purpose of using BGP is to server load balance, there are other products that work as well if not better. Take a look at F5, Alteon and Arrowpoint. BGP will be a good method to load share traffic between multiple different providers Regards Mohamed On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Mike Johnson wrote: > > 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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