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

[Chris Evans]

>From a data center perspective we use it for building more than anything.
We're using Nexus kit in our DC's mostly and they have full OOB support. Its
nice to be able to load code, configure, burn-in, etc.. before you bring the
container onto the core.  All of the benefits after the fact are just a
plus.

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 8:42 PM, Joel jaeggli <joelja at bogus.com> wrote:

> On 9/19/11 14:04 , Chris Morrow wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 09/19/11 16:59, Jonathan Lassoff wrote:
> >>>  BTW, can anyone give a good real-world example of a_routed_  OOB
> >>> management
> >>>  network usage?
>
> yeah, I I find that oob networks larger than a /21 are sort of hard to
> manage therefore we  split them up into l3 segments.
>
> >>>  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.
>
> It is.
>
> >>> For security concerns, at the days when firewalls were not
> >>> trusty
> >>>  enough,
>
> They still aren't.
>
> when lack of Internet connection was not that big issue.
>
> It isn't.
>
>  If you
> >>>  really need to implement this, you won't run into any routing
> conflict,
> >>>  since it's a really separated network, will you?
> >>>
>
> Ships in the night may still pass in some cases.
>
> > 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...
> >
> > -chris
> >
> > in 2011, we CAN have more than routing table on a single device, yes?
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