Comments on: First Mac Mini BGP routers on world's largest Internet exchange http://www.fubra.com/blog/2007/04/26/first-mac-mini-bgp-routers-on-worlds-largest-internet-exchange/ Focused on you Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:20:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mark Sutton http://www.fubra.com/blog/2007/04/26/first-mac-mini-bgp-routers-on-worlds-largest-internet-exchange/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Mark Sutton Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:24:51 +0000 http://www.fubra.com/blog/2007/04/first-mac-mini-bgp-routers-on-worlds-largest-internet-exchange/#comment-10 Paul, good question! Well, they're still up and running :-) The Mac Mini hardware has given us no trouble at all (absolutely 100% uptime), but Quagga has on occasion given us issues. Most of the time we've been fine though as the routers work independently and both have peering and transit paths available so if/when one occasionally goes down the network survives... There was one occasion however that we had to scramble quickly as we started receiving a "prefix of death" on both routers that crashed the bgpd instantly, causing both our transits to flap! This was the partial as_pathlimit bug covered here: http://lists.quagga.net/pipermail/quagga-bugs/2008-June/001055.html. Upgrading Quagga to latest solved the problem at the cost of some pretty bad network downtime. Other than that we consider the Mac Mini/Quagga experiment a great success! Though as our network and traffic grow I'm sure they will eventually be replaced by something more "purpose-built"! Mark Paul, good question! Well, they’re still up and running :-)

The Mac Mini hardware has given us no trouble at all (absolutely 100% uptime), but Quagga has on occasion given us issues. Most of the time we’ve been fine though as the routers work independently and both have peering and transit paths available so if/when one occasionally goes down the network survives…

There was one occasion however that we had to scramble quickly as we started receiving a “prefix of death” on both routers that crashed the bgpd instantly, causing both our transits to flap! This was the partial as_pathlimit bug covered here: http://lists.quagga.net/pipermail/quagga-bugs/2008-June/001055.html. Upgrading Quagga to latest solved the problem at the cost of some pretty bad network downtime.

Other than that we consider the Mac Mini/Quagga experiment a great success! Though as our network and traffic grow I’m sure they will eventually be replaced by something more “purpose-built”!

Mark

]]> By: Paul Freeman http://www.fubra.com/blog/2007/04/26/first-mac-mini-bgp-routers-on-worlds-largest-internet-exchange/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Paul Freeman Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:49:45 +0000 http://www.fubra.com/blog/2007/04/first-mac-mini-bgp-routers-on-worlds-largest-internet-exchange/#comment-9 So a little over 3 years on, how are those mini's (and Quagga for that matter) holding up? - Several IXPs have reported stability issues with Qugga and now use a mix of Quagga/OpenBGPd/Bird etc! So a little over 3 years on, how are those mini’s (and Quagga for that matter) holding up? – Several IXPs have reported stability issues with Qugga and now use a mix of Quagga/OpenBGPd/Bird etc!

]]> By: Stefan Schmidt http://www.fubra.com/blog/2007/04/26/first-mac-mini-bgp-routers-on-worlds-largest-internet-exchange/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Stefan Schmidt Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:14:26 +0000 http://www.fubra.com/blog/2007/04/first-mac-mini-bgp-routers-on-worlds-largest-internet-exchange/#comment-8 Wow you people were really ahead of time it seems. ;-) -> http://www.apple.com/macmini/server/ Wow you people were really ahead of time it seems. ;-)

-> http://www.apple.com/macmini/server/

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