[10020] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ascend GRF
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Rubenstein)
Wed Jun 11 13:59:37 1997
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 13:48:05 -0300
To: Peter Leppik <pleppik@mail.wessels.com>,
"'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>
From what I have seen (disclaimer: I have not used either) and heard (same
disclaimer), the case is the the GRF is turly a piece.
At 07:58 AM 6/11/97 -0500, Peter Leppik wrote:
>I've been hearing conflicting stories about the Ascend GRF lately.
>Cisco claims that it doesn't really work as advertised in "realistic
>networks," but Ascend says this is because Cisco's routers melt down
>when the GRF feeds them routing table updates, so the GRF has to be
>throttled back to work in a mixed environment.
>
>Does anybody have any real experience here? Any information, pointers,
>anecdotes, or wild rumors would help.
>
>Thanks,
> -Peter
>
