[Xorp-users] SNMP & xorp 1.8.2-CT

[Mike Weaver]

I'm much more versed in Linux than BSD anyway, just curious.  We're a  
research organization and trying to scale back both our network  
infrastructure as well as the use of commercial/proprietary products.   
We're currently running a Cisco 7206 VXR router, multiple IDS systems  
(commercial & research) and Websense for content monitoring/blocking.

Our lead read about Vyatta providing similar/better performance than  
Cisco without the hardware & maintenance costs, while also providing  
firewall (iptables) and content filtering (squidGuard) support.   
Unfortunately, Quagga doesn't support multicast and I don't have time  
to see if I make it work with things like pimd.

Anyway, xorp looked like a good choice to evaluate and we're generally  
pretty impressed.  When we discuss my evaluation results, we may end  
up deciding to go with another box or 2 behind the router to handle  
firewalling & content filtering.  It would have been nice to get it  
all in one box from a complexity & cost standpoint (we're a small  
organization w/ limited resources).

Anyway, thanks for all your work on xorp-CT and your quick assistance  
to my inquiries!

Mike

-- 
Mike Weaver
Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research
US Department of Energy
T: 301-903-0072
F: 301-903-7774


Quoting Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>:

> On 08/20/2010 12:21 PM, Mike Weaver wrote:
>> Ok, I'll try that - thanks.  Do you know if this still works on FreeBSD?
>> You seem to indicate that it's a Linux thing only.
>
> I've never done more than compile on BSD, but it might work there.
>
> Might have to hack on scons for BSD as well..probably somewhat similar
> to what I did for Linux.
>
> I'm curious:  Why use xorp for firewalling instead of some
> third-party thing that manipulates iptables?
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
>
> -- 
> Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
> Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com
>



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