[j-nsp] out of band management - real OOB

[Jonathan Lassoff]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Chris Morrow <morrowc at ops-netman.net>wrote:

>
>
> On 09/19/11 16:59, Jonathan Lassoff wrote:
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>>  BTW, can anyone give a good real-world example of a_routed_  OOB
>>> management
>>>  network usage?
>>>
>>>  As far as I understand the whole concept of OOB MGT IP interface was
>>>  invented to make the management network totally isolated from any
>>> transit
>>>  traffic. For security concerns, at the days when firewalls were not
>>> trusty
>>>  enough, when lack of Internet connection was not that big issue. If you
>>>  really need to implement this, you won't run into any routing conflict,
>>>  since it's a really separated network, will you?
>>>
>>>
> how about like management networks on ss7 deployments?
>
> It's really not that hard to conceive of a 'management card' on a network
> device that can twiddle all of the network device's parts and maintains a
> separate routing world from the production side of the hardware.
>
> Hell, you could even envision something like this in the world of servers:
> ilom (sun), drac (dell), hp-whatever-the-hell...
>

This is the exact right way to go about this.

in 2011, we CAN have more than routing table on a single device, yes?


Certainly. Though plenty of older hardware did not do this for many years.

--j