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OS Router Challenges Proprietary Networking

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the years-of-habit-to-overcome dept.

Jane Walker writes "Dave Roberts talks about Vyatta's open source router and how open source technology may soon alter the landscape of enterprise networking." From the article: "Initially, we believe that the x86 PC running Vyatta -- given the range of hardware that's available in the PC world -- can basically replace the midrange of the router market; to use Cisco terminology and model numbers, simply because it's convenient shorthand, basically from the 2800 series to the 7200 series. There's a whole host of equivalent products from Nortel and Alcatel -- but essentially in that range. I wouldn't describe it as Cisco model numbers so much as T1 branch office to gigabit LAN product categories."

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  1. Siad the OS advocate... by Duncan3 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Advocate 1: "I work at Oracle by day, but work on Vyatta by night."

    Advocate 2: "Well, I work at Cisco by day, but work on PostgreSQL by night"

    [awkward pause]

    Advocate 1: "Pistols or swords?"

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    1. Re:Siad the OS advocate... by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 3, Funny

      Well I work on Microsoft Windows during the day, and SQL Server at night.

      Advocate 1: "Pistols or swords?"

      Both please. Right in my head.

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  2. Re:Sigh.... by Nuclear+Elephant · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can plug damn near anything into a Cisco router....

    Open source routers and pr0n sounds like a dangerous combination for you then.

  3. Oohh, Vyatta by creepynut · · Score: 2, Funny
    "Initially, we believe that the x86 PC running Vyatta -- given the range"

    Reading from a distance, I thought that said VISTA, not Vyatta :)

    I was starting to think that Vista had lost so many features that the only thing it was good for was for setting up a really, really expensive router.

  4. Can we slap ourselves? by Triode · · Score: 2, Funny

    We (by that I mean geeks in the networking world) have been doing this for years...

    Why can't we think of ways to profit from this as these companies do??

    Damn, should have gone back and gotten that MBA...

  5. Re:Sigh.... by kindbud · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can plug damn near anything into a Cisco router....

    And if you disable autonegotiate and set speed and duplex at fixed values, you might even get link.

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  6. Re:Sigh.... by Jzor · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...but can a project like this really offer the same number of WIC modules?

    What do foodstamps have to do with networking?

  7. Re:Good luck with that! by timeOday · · Score: 2, Funny
    notice I avoid any discussion of h/w, because in the enterprise, h/w without support is worthless.

    Yes, Vyatta talks a good game, but 24/7 worldwide support isn't something you build with a few million bucks in VC funding.

    This sounds eerily like old Sun talk. "We don't care if competing products can do it for less, we're [Sun | SGI | Cray]!! The low end will never catch up with us, because we have special pixie dust!"
  8. Re:Sigh.... by RareButSeriousSideEf · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't know what all the fuss is about Cisco routers. For my money, Black and Decker wins every time.

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