[f-nsp] Foundry vs F5

[Oliver Adam]

The funny thing with iRules is that they are not officially supported 
based on my experience - you will have the same problem with 
everything you are doing to the box at OS level.

R, Oliver



At 21:11 09.02.2008, Lee Pedder wrote:
>F5 appliances can give you lots of flexibility at the application
>level. The iRules featureset allows you to re-write web content on the
>fly, which can be useful to work around temporary problems. This
>feature can make turning a CDN on/off at short notice a breeze.
>Another possible use for this is for compliance (example: you can
>define a regex to obscure credit card numbers being sent to the
>client, in case your app doesn't). There is some performance penalty
>for these features.
>
>Also, the BigIP platform is basically Linux under the hood, with
>special ASIC-based switching hardware. You get root access, and can
>troubleshoot using tcpdump, grep logfiles, run cron jobs etc, and edit
>config files for the application modules within the system. If you
>need to integrate it into an automated provisioning system this makes
>things pretty simple. Also if you're delegating responsibility for
>pools / vips to another team the GUI is friendly enough to get on
>with.
>
>One thing to check is the pricing. Various application modules have
>different licenses and the pricing depends on the specification of
>unit you run it on.
>
>If you're going for pure performance, and don't need the additional
>features or management flexibility the F5 can offer, then you may find
>the Foundry equipment offers better value.
>
>On 09/02/2008, Paul Raj Khangure <foundry-nsp at digitaljunkie.net> wrote:
> > I was wondering if anyone had any F5 experience and could give a rough
> > overview of comparitive advantages / disadvantages, or point me in a
> > general direction of where to concentrate on evaluation.
> >
> > prk
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