[10021] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ascend GRF
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil J. McRae)
Wed Jun 11 14:21:55 1997
To: pleppik@mail.wessels.com (Peter Leppik)
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 19:07:04 +0100 (BST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <c=US%a=_%p=WAH%l=MPLS_GOLD-970611125830Z-15009@mpls_gold.wessels.com> from "Peter Leppik" at Jun 11, 97 07:58:30 am
From: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org>
>
>
> 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.
>
I'm using a GRF talking to a CISCO 7K over a DS-3 on ATM using
full BGP4 and route reflection and we've had no problems, other than
Ascends subtle changed to gated which are a little confusing.
The router is quite spectacular, Our backbone is 155M based and
so far the GRF hasn't had a single problem in over 3 weeks of testing.
The only thing that pisses me off about Ascend is that the documentation
could be better.
Cheers,
Neil.
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