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 
How many ports and how much load are you working with?
Craig
If you have lots of ports, perhaps using tagged vlans and untag them on a switch to various switch ports.
Combined Core/Edge/Access in 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
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.
Remeber at this point MT is not SMP nor does it support more than 1gb of ram IIRC
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.
neato: but only 6 ports http://www.tyan.com.tw/products/html/trophy_nr12.html
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
dual power supplies for one, front connectors, 4 slot riser, nice look in the DC.
The jsut released v3 beta does, however.
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?