[10408] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Plethora of UUnet outages and instabilities
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Stratton)
Tue Jul 1 13:37:58 1997
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 13:14:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Nathan Stratton <nathan@netrail.net>
To: Joe Shaw <jshaw@insync.net>
cc: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org>, Jon Green <jcgreen@netins.net>,
Wayne Bouchard <web@typo.org>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970701102434.8196J-100000@vellocet.insync.net>
On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Joe Shaw wrote:
> What would you suggest? I've looked into the Ascend GRF, and if it
> performs as much as they hype it (never trust a salesman) then it must be
> one kickbutt little router. My only question is who has some in a real
> world setup, doing BGP/OSPF/RIP? I tried talking to psi.net about their
> GRF switchover, and ended up with someone trying to sell me bandwidth.
I am happy with them we have 14 in our network right now. Yes they have
some small problems, but Ascend GRF tech support is the best I have seen.
We have some new Cisco stuff on the way, and in a few weeks will know if
we are going to ditch GRF and with with Cisco. So far we are still 100%
cisco free, but that may change in a few weeks.
Try the GRF, it is a nice box.
Nathan Stratton President, NetRail,Inc.
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