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Re: Single router for P/PE functions

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William McCall)
Fri Sep 4 00:08:25 2009

In-Reply-To: <462083.54398.qm@web53604.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 23:07:40 -0500
From: William McCall <william.mccall@gmail.com>
To: Serge Vautour <serge@nbnet.nb.ca>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

Kinda depends on what you're doing exactly, but like Erik said, it certainly
possible and depending on your particular needs, it might not be much of an
issue at all.

Can you describe your scenario a bit more?

--WM

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Serge Vautour <sergevautour@yahoo.ca>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm pretty confident that a router can be used to perform P & PE functions
> simultaneously. What about from a best practice perspective? Is this
> something that should be completely avoided? Why? We're considering doing
> this as a temporary workaround but we all know temporary usually lasts a
> long time. I'd like to know what kind of mess awaits if we let this one go.
>
> Thanks,
> Serge
>
>
>
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