Either should be okay. A few things to think about
NAT or not to NAT. Both will do it. Alteon was a bit easier to do
and seemed to work better, but I don't think I have all the kinks out of
the config on the Arrow yet.
Arrowpoint supports ssh, older Alteon's don't. not sure about the
new stuff. I like the config interface on the Arrow better. It's more Cisco
like. I like the label system better on Arrow. You can create your own
names as opposed to having to remember which number you set www8 as.
Number of machines. On the Alteon you only get 256... I think.
This may have changed depending on the code. 5.2.x is evil. 6.0.x is nice.
8.0.x has had problems according to the old FreeI admins who tested it for
their mail system. They were running 6.0.x and NATing on an Ace 3 and
thought it was fairly stable.
. The Arrowpoint has a few more features and was a bit more
flexible for port redirections. Better healthchecks unless Alteon has
changed recently. I haven't kept up with the Alteon since we've been
migrating to the Arrows.
We're currently running two sets of the css 11801's for http type
stuff and an Alteon Ace 3 for mail. The Ace 3 has been stable for us doing
mail once we moved to 6.0.x code. I forget the number of transactions per
second, but it's a solid 20Mb/s of mail during the day.
Ramin K
Network Engineer
Netzero Inc.
At 12:37 AM 12/20/00 +0100, Rod Oliver wrote:
>Hi Guys,
>
>We are in the process of evaluating server load balancing solutions for a
>high density mail system. We are looking into Alteon, Cat6000 and Cat4000
>series and the old Arrowpoint range. I realise that this is a kind of
>'horses for courses' question, but I would very much appreciate comments,
>anecdotal and technical that people might consider to be appropriate. The
>options that I have listed are mainly so because we are up to now a mostly
>Cisco shop.
>
>Rod Oliver
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