[106045] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Force10 E300 vs. Juniper MX480
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Sweeting)
Fri Jul 18 10:47:55 2008
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:47:24 -0400
From: "John Sweeting" <John.Sweeting@tatacommunications.com>
To: <keith@pando.com>, <cmarlatt@rxsec.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
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