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miahac · Wed Sep 06, 2006 8:59 am

I am looking for a blade chassis that has a somewhat open standard and is nice for MT.

Something similar to

You see the blades are just motherboards. 2 of them have a 4 pci riser and the third has only a single pci slot.

I am trying to switch from Riverstone/Cabletron to all MT and that may be possible if I can find a good chassis for a reasonable price with enough ports and.... BGP is working nice

csickles · Wed Sep 06, 2006 4:54 pm

How many ports and how much load are you working with?
Craig

jp · Wed Sep 06, 2006 6:09 pm

If you have lots of ports, perhaps using tagged vlans and untag them on a switch to various switch ports.

miahac · Thu Sep 07, 2006 4:37 pm

结合核心/优势/访问one router.
Customer side.
right now I have about 15 subneted ports where the customers are 0 hops from the core. I have 2 ports with single static routes, and I have one port with about 5 static routes in another building via metro E (ISP Side)

Wan Side.
DS3, T1, Metro E

miahac · Sun Sep 17, 2006 3:51 am

But it's not really about the 20 ports I am using. What I am looking for is a blade MB/Chassis with dual power, at least 2-3 mb slots and a full 4 pci riser for nics.

Beccara · Sun Sep 17, 2006 6:25 am

Remeber at this point MT is not SMP nor does it support more than 1gb of ram IIRC

miahac · Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:03 pm

Yeah, I was thinking of seperating the core and edge routes and customer subneting, I will need to soon anyway because I am low on ports. BGP for 3 peers requires about 200MB ram. I already have customer access sepearated to multiple mikrotik using pppoe. The data center ports are the most port intensive, but use 0 cpu overhead because they are only static subnets. Also I will seperate my core to 2 seperate boxes with vrrp. I am working on that with pppoe on the customer edge too.

Just more todos to do.

But I am still looking for a reasonable priced blade that I can load with MT compatitible ports.

miahac · Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:05 pm

neato: but only 6 portshttp://www.tyan.com.tw/products/html/trophy_nr12.html

ldvaden · Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:09 pm

But it's not really about the 20 ports I am using. What I am looking for is a blade MB/Chassis with dual power, at least 2-3 mb slots and a full 4 pci riser for nics.

This question is for real: what do you gain over several 1U commodity boxen (other than 4 full pci slots in a riser)?

thnx/ldv

miahac · Fri Sep 29, 2006 1:42 am

dual power supplies for one, front connectors, 4 slot riser, nice look in the DC.

Hammy · Fri Sep 29, 2006 6:17 pm

Remeber at this point MT is not SMP nor does it support more than 1gb of ram IIRC

The jsut released v3 beta does, however.

vince · Tue Sep 04, 2007 12:28 pm

neato: but only 6 portshttp://www.tyan.com.tw/products/html/trophy_nr12.html

Did you finaly tryed this network appliance?. Is it properlly supported by Mikrotik. I'm thinking on using one of them as our main router. Anyone can share some experience with tyan boards? Intel or AMD? Dual or single processor?

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